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Staple Food Trade in the COMESA Region: The Need for a Regional Approach to Stimulate Agricultural Growth and Enhance Food Security
Nijhoff, Jan J. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009
COMMON MARKET FOR EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA Twenty Fourth Meeting of the Trade and Customs Committee Nairobi, Kenya 2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543652
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Variation in Staple Food Prices in Eastern and Southern Africa: A Synthesis
Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2010
international organizations. For policymakers in sub-Saharan Africa, however, food prices have been an issue of economic importance … starchy root crops that are inexpensive sources of calories. In eastern and southern Africa, maize is the most important … households in sub-Saharan Africa. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543655
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Patterns of Urban Food Consumption and Expenditure in Zambia: An Overview Report Based on the CSO/MACO/FSRP Food Consumption Survey in Urban Areas of Lusaka, Kitwe, Mansa and Kasam...
Hichaambwa, Munguzwe; Beaver, Margaret; Chapoto, Antony; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009
Replaced with revised version of paper 06/16/10.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550383
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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
Effective agricultural and food security policies in Africa need to be based on a solid empirical foundation. In Zambia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530541
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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
which it occurs (focusing on Africa), proposes a classification of risks involved in LRP, discusses a range of potential LRP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530543
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530544
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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
The economic reforms in maize marketing and trade policies implemented during the 1990s have been highly controversial, and there remains a lack of solid empirical investigation on the impacts of these reforms on national food security, price stability and rural income growth. This study aims to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530546
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Local and Regional Food Aid Procurement in Zambia
Haggblade, Steven; Tschirley, David L. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2007
aid, in Africa, has attracted growing interest because of its potential to reduce landed costs and speed delivery times … procurement in Africa. WFP’s experience suggests that local or regional procurement of food aid offers significant savings, in … both commodity costs and delivery times. On average, maize procured in Africa costs 30% to 50% less than white maize …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530551
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530554
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Assessment of the Farm Level Financial Profitability of the Magoye RipperiIn Maize and Cotton Production in Southern and Eastern Provinces
Kabwe, Stephen; Donovan, Cynthia; Samazaka, David - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2007
With the risk of the drought in the agricultural production areas of Zambia, conservation farming (CF) was introduced as a set of technologies that can improve productivity while reducing plant stress due to moisture constraints. Under animal traction, CF involves using the Magoye ripper to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530559