Rural poverty rates in Zambia have remained very high, at 80%, over the past decade and a half, whilst urban poverty … dynamics that have improved the welfare of small-scale farm households in Zambia, combined with an agenda for disseminating … Zambia households. …

Rapid growth in urban populations and renewed growth in per capita incomes in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are creating …

which it occurs (focusing on Africa), proposes a classification of risks involved in LRP, discusses a range of potential LRP …

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

aid, in Africa, has attracted growing interest because of its potential to reduce landed costs and speed delivery times … commodities. This paper reviews experience with local and regional food aid procurement in Zambia. The study focuses primarily on … procurement in Africa. WFP’s experience suggests that local or regional procurement of food aid offers significant savings, in …

Cassava production has grown rapidly in Zambia since the early 1990’s. Available evidence suggests that volumes of … national level, Zambia’s Agricultural Consultative Forum (ACF) initiated an Acceleration of Cassava Utilization (ACU) Task … Force, beginning in August 2005. At a regional level, efforts such as the Cassava Transformation in Southern Africa (CATISA …

Given heavy dependence on rainfed maize production, Zambia must routinely cope with pronounced production and … Zambia, using a simple economic model to assess the likely impact of maize production shocks on the domestic maize price and …