FEFA PhD candidate Mulako Kabisa completed the second phase of her data collection in June 2024. The final stage of this data collection was a four-day futures workshop on “Exploring preferable nature futures for biodiversity and climate governance in the Barotse Cultural Landscape of Zambia”. It involved 19 participants from Barotseland involved in biodiversity and climate governance.

They included state actors, members of the Barotse Royal Establishment, innovative initiative actors, local artists and a writer. These meetings were held at the David Livingstone Safari Lodge and Spa in Livingstone, Zambia and Liuwa Camp in the Liuwa National Park in Kalabo, Zambia.

The workshop facilitation team included FEFA team members Prof. Laura Pereira, Batlhalifi Nkgothoe and Dr. Andrea Marais-Potgeiter. She held a validation meeting for the futures workshop results with 16 of the futures workshop participants on 12^th September 2024 in Mongu, Zambia. They reviewed the emerging results and provided some input on the developed artistic works from the illustrative narratives produced during the futures workshop. Three visualisations of the illustrative narratives were finalised for the three nature value perspectives of the nature futures framework; Nature for Nature, Nature for Society, and Nature as Culture.