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FOOD SECURITY RESEARCH PROJECT, LUSAKA, ZAMBIA …
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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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Replaced with revised version of paper 06/16/10.
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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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The triple challenge of rapid population growth, declining agricultural productivity, and natural resource degradation are not isolated from one another; they are intimately related. However, strategic planning and development programming tend to focus on individual sectors such as the...
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the poor on forest resources. Studies of the role of forest products in household welfare in Zambia have found that such … role of non-timber forest products NTFPs) in rural household welfare in Zambia, with two main objectives. First, using …
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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 … sector. Investing in sunflower may be ideal for promoting rural welfare, however much poverty reducing potential may go … unrealized in Zambia’s rural areas if the current status quo is unchanged. …
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Cotton is an unquestioned success of Zambia’s turn towards a market economy. After privatization in late 1994, seed …
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Natural resource use, including land, and rural population location is an important topic for Zambia's development … strategy. Among other efforts, the Government of Zambia (GRZ) has designated 22% of total land area, as Game Management Areas …
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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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