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A cheaper plan to stop poaching: Give them real jobs

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dc.contributor.authorSchatz, J. J.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialLundazien
dc.coverage.spatialZambiaen
dc.coverage.spatialSouthern Africaen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T19:20:22Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T19:20:22Zen
dc.date.issued2007en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractThis article describes Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS) initiative in Zambia's Luangwa River Valley to promote conservation by addressing the reasons poachers hunt. COMACO - Community Markets for Conservation - is "a business model approach that gives local residents the opportunity to make a real, legal, living. If farmers agree not to poach and to adopt conservation-friendly methods, they gain "compliance bonuses" and access to the prices offered by COMACO, which normally exceed the local market rate. Extension officers show local villagers the benefits of farming organically, building high-yield log beehives, and growing multiple crops to avoid seasonal food shortages that might drive them to hunt or cut down trees to make charcoal."en
dc.description.notesLTRA-2 (An Agricultural Markets Model for Biodiversity Conservation)en
dc.format.mimetypetext/plainen
dc.identifier2757en
dc.identifier.citationThe Christian Science Monitor 23 October 2007en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/67126en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1023/p01s07-woaf.htmlen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectWildlifeen
dc.subjectNiche marketsen
dc.subjectIncome generationen
dc.subjectAlternative farmingen
dc.subjectEnvironmental impactsen
dc.subjectLivelihoodsen
dc.subjectAgribusinessen
dc.subjectConservationen
dc.subjectEconomic impactsen
dc.subjectAgricultureen
dc.subjectComacoen
dc.subjectZambiaen
dc.subjectPoachingen
dc.subjectEcosystem Farm/Enterprise Scale Field Scaleen
dc.titleA cheaper plan to stop poaching: Give them real jobsen
dc.title.alternativeA new program in Zambia teaches former poachers new ways to make a living in order to support conservation goalsen
dc.typeAbstracten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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