ABSTRACT
The Economic Change, Poverty and the Environment (ECPE) project in Zambia, as elsewhere, set out to explore and promote ‘win–win’ solutions to the associated problems of poverty and environmental degradation. This is not an entirely new area of concern or intervention in Zambia. Even in colonial days, progressive officials understood that wild nature could not be conserved in the absence of cooperation from rural people, and that this would require that those people saw themselves as receiving adequate benefit from conservation efforts.
