urban food consumers. Urban consumption patterns will increasingly determine the opportunities available to small …

surprisingly high share of rural smallholder households face land constraints that adversely affect their productivity and ability …

for most rural households in Zambia. Thus key development challenge facing Zambian agriculture over the past two decades … concentrated with only about 5% of Zambia’s small- and medium-scale farmers produce half of the marketed surplus. Meanwhile at …

This study analyzes the implications of increasing population density in Kenya’s rural areas on smallholder production … and commercialization. Using data from five panel surveys on 1,146 small-scale farms over the 1997-2010 period, we use … econometric techniques to determine how increasing rural population density is affecting farm household behavior and its …

mortality on rural households in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, and Zambia. Each study is based on large representative … rural household surveys. These findings have implications for the design of efforts to mitigate some of the most important … effects of rural adult mortality, and for key development policies and priorities. …

University and partner institutions in five African countries, each of which is based upon large-scale rural household surveys …. The results demonstrate that the post-death land/labor ratios and income of rural households directly affected by prime …

higher as food production declines. This study examines these trends and finds that all of these perceptions are wrong. Rural … poverty rates have declined substantially in rural Zambia since the early 1990s, although they are still unacceptably high … key crops. This paper examines the relationship between trends in agricultural sector performance and rural poverty in …