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urban food consumers. Urban consumption patterns will increasingly determine the opportunities available to small …
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surprisingly high share of rural smallholder households face land constraints that adversely affect their productivity and ability …
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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 …
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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 …
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, in the process, uses farm survey data from Kenya to investigate changes in multiple indicators during the post …-liberalization period. Findings show that market access conditions experienced by rural Kenyans exhibit considerable variation across time …
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Crop production forecasts are widely recognized as an important input into food balance sheets and for anticipating production shortfalls. However, the role of accurate crop production forecasting systems in mitigating food price instability and transitory food insecurity is often...
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analysis. Quantitative data were collected through a national survey in 2007 of 2,491 households who were previously … interviewed in the 2004/05 Integrated Household Survey, a survey of retail shops selling inputs in six districts and data on … descriptive statistics, econometric modelling and livelihood and rural economy modelling. An Interim Report in March 2007 provides …
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Zambia’s maize crop grew by roughly 48% between the 2009 and 2010 harvests, leading to the largest crop recorded in recent history. The 2009 maize harvest was also very good, making the 48% rise in 2010 even more remarkable. The forces driving that increase, however, remain widely debated....
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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 …
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