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COMACO COMMENDS GOVERNMENT’S CONFERENCE OF PARTIES (COP27) APPROACH
Lusaka, Zambia/Africa – The Community Markets for Conservation (COMACO) has commended government for rallying the private sector in its strategy to address climate change issues at
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COMACO Delivers Multimillion Dollar Carbon Credit Transfer/Project to Nine Chiefdoms in Zambia
Lusaka, Zambia/Africa – The Community Markets for Conservation (COMACO) is enabling a multimillion-dollar carbon credit payment to nine chiefdoms of Zambia in recognition for their con
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Climate-smart farming aims to end poaching
(Lusaka, Zambia – 2 May 2022) – Small-scale farmers across Zambia have begun harvesting the first season crops from a climate-smart project aimed at securing livelihoods and protecti
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Time Has Run Out For Words – It’s Time To Act
(As published in the Times of Zambia on 15/11/2021) Let’s not kid ourselves. We know we’re losing Nature and we also know the perils that will follow. The COP26 meeting has made that c
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19 Years and Counting – COMACO’s History of Building a Green Economy
19 years and counting – COMACO’s history of building a Green Economy offers a platform for the new Zambian government COMACO sees small-scale farmers as critical to a Zambian Green Econo
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Counting the costs, delivering the benefits, restoring the land
Like most people, small-scale farmers respond to markets that offer the best price and typically follow the practices that markets promote. When COMACO began its relationship with farmers, w
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The Tree That’s Changing Everything for Small-Scale Farmers in Zambia
I don’t believe she had ever planted a tree before. Though I can’t remember her name, I will never forget the way her face lit up. Kneeling down with her Gliricidia sepium tre
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