Chapoto, Antony; Jayne, Thomas S.; Mason, Nicole M. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2007
1. The percentage of households that are headed by widows in rural Zambia increased from 9.4 % to 12.3% between 2001 and 2004. 2. Within 1 to 3 years after the death of their husbands, widow-headed households, on average, controlled 35 percent less land than what they had prior to their...