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poverty, and relative deprivation among smallholder maize growers in Zambia. The analysis contributes to the literature by …
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Does participation in livestock markets improve the welfare levels of smallholder farmers in Zambia? Are there any … smallholder farmers in Zambia. Our findings suggest that, other factors constant, participation in cattle markets raises household …
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Agricultural input subsidies often have implicit or explicit political economy objectives. Using panel data from Zambia …
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An important hypothesized benefit of large-scale input subsidy programs in Africa is that by raising maize production … effects of fertilizer subsidies on retail maize prices in Malawi and Zambia using market or district-level panel data covering … maize prices by 1.2% to 1.6% on average. In Zambia, roughly doubling the scale of the country’s subsidy program (i …
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Many of the ‘new’ agricultural input subsidy programs (ISPs) in sub-Saharan Africa list raising farm incomes and …-representative surveys of smallholder farm households in Zambia to estimate the effects of an increase in ISP fertilizer on household incomes …
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While climate change is widely regarded as a threat to food security in southern Africa, few studies attempt to link … build a series of linear programming (LP) farm-household models in Zambia in order to assess the impact of climate change on … over nine years reveal that crops in Zambia exhibit varying levels of sensitivity to climate shocks, and under climate …
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improving agricultural technology in Zambia makes it important to understand the determinants of changes in farm yield for major …
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It is recognized that inorganic fertilizer, as is commonly distributed in large-­‐scale input subsidy programs, must be used along with soil fertility management (SFM) practices in order to maximize its efficacy. We use nationally representative data with 8,839 household observations to...
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is used for descriptive analysis of food security indicators in rural Zambia in 2000/01, 2003/04, and 2007/08 for … different types of households, including female-headed households. A multidimensional index of food security for rural Zambia is … security in Zambia over time, to assess correlates of food insecurity, and to measure the impacts of climate shocks on food …
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This is a draft paper, submitted in advance of presentation at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association.
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