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Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Directorate of Economics, Republic of Mozambique
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Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Directorate of Economics, Republic of Mozambique
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Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Directorate of Economics, Republic of Mozambique
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Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Directorate of Economics, Republic of Mozambique
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Crop income is the predominant source of income for most rural Mozambican households, accounting for 73% of rural household income on average in 2002, and greater than 80% of the total income of the poorest 40% of rural households. While the Government of Mozambique recognizes the need to...
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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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Though Zambia has considerable agricultural potential, the sector’s contribution to growth and poverty reduction has been limited. The sector remains one of the most important employers of labour and remains the main source of livelihood for most rural households in Zambia. Thus key...
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Forests support rural livelihoods and food security in many developing countries by providing critical sources of food … both direct consumption and trade (including food products and wood for cooking fuel and charcoal production), and forest …
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Rapid urbanization in Zambia means that increasingly heavy demands are being placed on urban food marketing systems … work against the interests of both farmers and consumers. Understanding urban food expenditure patterns is a first step in … addressing these problems. The Food Security Research Project (FSRP) which is now the Indaba Agricultural Policy Research …
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affecting market prices. This paper estimates the effects of the Zambia Food Reserve Agency’s (FRA) activities on maize market …
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