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\parbox[b]{13.4cm}{\centering \large{\textbf{Tropentag, September 18-21, 2016, Vienna, Austria}}\\[1ex] \Large{``Solidarity in a competing world ---\\fair use of resources''\\[2ex]}}
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\Large{\textbf{Socio"=economic and Environmental Impacts of Commercial Agriculture on Rural Communities: Analysing Land Acquisitions in Zambia\footnote{\textbf{Contact Address:} Andrew Chilombo, The University of Edinburgh, School of Geosciences, Rm 22, Drummond Street, EH8 9XP~Edinbrugh, United Kingdom, \mbox{e-mail}: \email{a.chilombo@sms.ed.ac.uk}}\\[0.8ex]}}
\normalsize{\textsc{Andrew Chilombo}}
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\item[]{\small{\textit{The University of Edinburgh, School of Geosciences, Rm 22, United Kingdom}}}
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As with most sub-Saharan African countries, agriculture is a key economic sector in Zambia. About 80 percent of rural Zambia is actively involved in agriculture that is practised in the Zambezian miombo woodlands, which cover \mbox{53\,\%} of the total land of the country. With an agricultural sector that was hugely inherited from the colonial agricultural policies, Zambia has sought to reduce her reliance on the mining sector to take advantage of the country's agricultural potential to develop rural areas. To break the fetters of rural poverty and improve the socio"=economic conditions of rural communities that live on customary land, the government has embarked on various agricultural policies to promote commercial agriculture such as out"=grower schemes or contract farming, plantations and commercial farms. In 2002 the government began a programme to establish nine farm blocks across the country. One of them is Nansanga farm block (NFB) in the central province of the country. 







Taking NFB as a case study, this research will provide socio"=economic and environmental evidence regarding how commercial agriculture render rural communities better off or worse off, and to what extent the government objective to develop rural areas is achieved.  Through an interdisciplinary analysis of large"=scale land acquisitions, this research will seek to understand the impacts of commercial farming on ecosystem services that underpin rural livelihoods and well"=being on former customary land. Cognisant of potential impacts of commercial farms on ecosystem services, and the nexus with livelihoods, the research will use both quantitative and qualitative approaches to gain an understanding into factors that account for reliance and use of ecosystem services, as well as how rural communities adapt to changing levels of ecosystem service provision and availability.  



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\noindent \textbf{Keywords:} Commercial agriculture, ecosystem services, rural livelihoods, Zambia
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