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Livestock products and fish form an important component of urban consumers’ diet accounting for about one third of the total monthly budgetary expenditure on food. The budgetary share of livestock products increases with affluence or household income while the opposite is true for fish; 2) The...
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Rapid urbanization in Zambia means that increasingly heavy demands are being placed on urban food marketing systems …
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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 … and improved urban food marketing system performance in Zambia will need to take into consideration the demand patterns of …
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Resultados das Investigações do Departamento de Análise de Políticas MADER-Direcção de Economía
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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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This paper traces the trajectories of successful commercial smallholders operating under differing sets of market institutions. Analysis focuses on maize, cotton, and horticulture, three widely marketed crops with strikingly different market institutions. Maize receives intensive government...
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The successful development and diffusion of improved maize seed in Zambia during the 1970s–80s was a major achievement …-generation (F1) hybrid maize seed in Zambia based on a survey of maize growers during the 2010/11 cropping season. …
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years numerous countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) including Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Senegal, Tanzania, and Zambia … and seed. In Zambia between 2004 and 2011, an average of 40% of the government’s agricultural sector budget was devoted to …
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millions of rural farmers out of poverty in Zambia’s Eastern Province through the implementation of the Feed the Future program … unrealized in Zambia’s rural areas if the current status quo is unchanged. …
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