Contribution of forest provisioning ecosystem services to rural livelihoods in the Miombo woodlands of Zambia.

The study employed focus group meetings, in-depth interviews, and interviews of households, as stratified by wealth class and head of household gender in Copperbelt, Zambia, to examine the contribution of forest provisioning ecosystem services (FPES) to rural households and assesses the contributions of forests to the annual incomes of households in Africa?s Miombo woodlands.