FOOD SECURITY RESEARCH PROJECT, LUSAKA, ZAMBIA …

KEY POLICY POINTS • Tourism is increasingly important in Zambia as a vehicle for economic growth, and has been … identified as a key sector for poverty reduction due to its potential to generate off-farm income and employment in rural areas …. Growth in arrivals and receipts in Zambia has outpaced average growth rates for developing countries. • Tourism in Zambia …

Key Policy Points - Game Management Areas (GMAs) in Zambia aim to combine nature conservation with economic empowerment …

causes of rural poverty in Zambia. - The apparent paradox of inadequate access to land for many rural households in a country … to make settlement economically viable have yet been made in many areas of Zambia. - Depending of future land allocation …

• The Zambia Urban Consumption Survey, a survey of 1,865 urban households in Lusaka, Kitwe, Mansa, and Kasama, was … conducted in August 2007 and February 2008 by the Central Statistical Office in collaboration with the Zambia Food Security … terms of urban consumer expenditures. Maize is no longer the dominant staple food in urban Zambia, except among the poor …

After two decades of de-urbanization, Zambia is again becoming increasingly urban. While the urban share of the … population fell to 35% in 2000 due primarily to the decline of the copper industry, over half of Zambia’s people will be residing … and improved urban food marketing system performance in Zambia will need to take into consideration the demand patterns of …

Zambia’s population clusters tightly in cities along the north-south line of rail and in the primarily rural areas of … Malawi. Zambia’s staple food production and sales likewise cluster spatially in three main areas: along the line of rail, in … the large commercial farming blocks of north-central Zambia, and to a lesser extent in Eastern Province (Figure 6). This …

Rapid urbanization in Zambia means that increasingly heavy demands are being placed on urban food marketing systems …