Subject(s): Evironment -- Conservation of natural resources -- Poverty -- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions -- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Macroeconomics. -- Grinding rituals of poverty : Fundamental has changed, difficult trade offs, diminished economic opportunities for rural poor, weakned resilence of rural environments, big push under millennium development goals reverse the tide -- 3xM approach : Analytical and intervention approach -- China : Context analysis - local, meso, Marco, strategic interventions- design and action, on the ground demonstration, policy advocacy -- Indonesia : Background on Rinjani ecosystem and people, macro policy environment -- El Salvador : Poverty-environment dynamics -- South Africa : Macro policy framework as enabling environment, institutional and development challenges in Riemvasmaak, ECPE strategic intervention -- Zambia : strategic interventions -- Lessons : Aligning three Ms- micro,meso and macro levels, centrality of reforming institutions, building alliances with urban advocates, starting point of change - raising living standards, building social capital, laying the foundation for change- analyzing poverty environment dynamics in their fullest dimension, scaling up 3xM approach -- Organization from civil society, offices of national governments, bilateral and united nations development agencies, multilateral development banks, context of growing environmental scarcity and vulnerability