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Zambia's record-breaking maize harvest of nearly 2.8 million metric tons (MT) in 2010 is a major achievement and a …
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Major Findings: The additional maize produced from a given amount of fertilizer applied varied widely across households even after largely controlling for soil and rainfall conditions. The median estimated response rate was 15.9kgs of maize per kg nitrogen applied; Under the range of conditions...
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access to food. Zambia, like most countries in Southern Africa, is vigorously pursuing continued direct public sector …
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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 … in urban areas by 2040. Given this urbanization trajectory, to be effective, policies to promote smallholder agriculture …
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Zambia. However, evidence presented in this paper shows that economically viable arable land is not in great abundance in … Zambia after considering the current situation with respect to access to road infrastructure and access to services and … markets. In fact, access to land is already a major problem for large segments of the rural population in Zambia. Moreover …
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1) Export diversification has long been at the centre of Zambia’s economic diversification policies. This article … Zambia is mainly grown for export, the changes in real exchange have the most significant effect on supply in that a …
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Because gender roles and relations are dynamic, programs built on a solid up-to-date understanding of how men and women share labor responsibilities and the proceeds from their agricultural activities have the potential to bring forth positive outcomes. Better information on gender-based...
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institutional factors that enable smallholder transitions to high-productivity commercial agriculture. …
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both rural and urban areas. In Zambia, most rural households residing near forests extract a range of forest products for …
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