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Robison, Lindon J.; Schmid, A. Allan; Siles, Marcelo E. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 1999

service potential, durability, flexibility, substitutability, opportunities for decay (maintenance), reliability, ability to …/financial capital, service potential, durability, flexibility, substitutability, decay (maintenance), reliability, investment …

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Trends in Agricultural and Rural Development Indicators in Zambia.

Jayne, Thomas S.; Govereh, Jones; Chilonda, Pius; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2007

Zambia, the likely factors driving these trends, and the future implications for agricultural policy and investment rate …

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Local and Regional Food Aid Procurement: An Assessment of Experience in Africa and Elements of Good Donor Practice

Tschirley, David L.; Castillo, Anne Marie del - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2007

This report discusses the potential for procurement of food aid in local/regional markets to improve the effectiveness of response to food emergency victims. The paper examines the relevance of local/regional procurement (LRP) to donors and the rationale for using it, reviews LRP’s efficiency...

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Security of Widows’ Access to Land in the Era of HIV/AIDS: Panel Survey Evidence from Zambia (revised version)

Chapoto, Antony; Jayne, Thomas S.; Mason, Nicole M. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2007

The view that widows and their dependents face greater livelihood risks in the era of HIV/AIDS is indeed supported by nationally-representative survey results from Zambia. Efforts to safeguard widows’ rights to land through land tenure innovations involving community authorities may be an...

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Assessment of Alternative Maize Trade and Market Policy Interventions in Zambia

Govereh, Jones; Jayne, Thomas S.; Chapoto, Antony - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2008

national policy objectives. These insights from Zambia can hopefully move forward the continuing debate in the region on how …

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Local and Regional Food Aid Procurement in Zambia

Haggblade, Steven; Tschirley, David L. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2007

By law, US food aid relies on commodity procurement in the US. A powerful political coalition of US farm groups, shippers and relief agencies vigorously supports these in-kind food aid donation. As an alternative, local procurement of food aid, in Africa, has attracted growing interest because...

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Smallholder Income Diversification in Zambia: The Way Out of Poverty?

Bigsten, Arne; Tengstam, Sven - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2008

This paper investigates the relationship between income diversification and income change within Zambian smallholder households, and investigates what the constraints of income diversification are in this group. A panel data set of roughly 7000 smallholder farmer households interviewed in 2001...

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Commercial Dynamics in Zambia’s Cassava Value Chain

Haggblade, Steven; Nyembe, Misheck - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2008

Cassava production has grown rapidly in Zambia since the early 1990’s. Available evidence suggests that volumes of traded cassava have been increasing roughly twice as fast as production. Yet this cassava production boom could stall unless commercial markets for it develop. To help accelerate...

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HIV/AIDS and Agrarian Livelihoods in Zambia: A Test of the New Variant Famine Hypothesis

Mason, Nicole M.; Chapoto, Antony; Jayne, Thomas S.; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2007

Since the southern African food crisis of 2001/02, the ‘new-variant famine’ (NVF) hypothesis first proposed by de Waal and Whiteside (2003) has become an important part of the conventional wisdom surrounding the relationship between HIV/AIDS and food crises in the region. The NVF hypothesis...

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Alternative Instruments for Ensuring Food Security and Price Stability in Zambia

Dorosh, Paul A.; Dradri, Simon; Haggblade, Steven - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2007

consumption volatility in their primary food staple. Typical policy responses include increased food aid flows, government … on staple food consumption under alternative policy regimes. In addition to an array of public policy instruments, the … suggests that, given a favorable policy environment, private imports and increased cassava consumption together could fill …

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