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Land Constraints in Kenya’s Densely Populated Rural Areas: Implications for Food Policy and Institutional Reform

Jayne, Thomas S.; Muyanga, Milu - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2012

concludes by exploring the nature of institutional and policy reforms needed to address these development problems. …

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Effects of Population Density on Smallholder Agricultural Production and Commercialization in Rural Kenya

Muyanga, Milu; Jayne, Thomas S. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012

exploring the nature of institutional and policy reforms needed to address these development problems. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010881128

Trends in Agricultural and Rural Development Indicators in Zambia.

Jayne, Thomas S.; Govereh, Jones; Chilonda, Pius; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2007

Zambia, the likely factors driving these trends, and the future implications for agricultural policy and investment rate …

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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

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

national policy objectives. These insights from Zambia can hopefully move forward the continuing debate in the region on how …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530546

HIV/AIDS and Agrarian Livelihoods in Zambia: A Test of the New Variant Famine Hypothesis

Mason, Nicole M.; Chapoto, Antony; Jayne, Thomas S.; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2007

Since the southern African food crisis of 2001/02, the ‘new-variant famine’ (NVF) hypothesis first proposed by de Waal and Whiteside (2003) has become an important part of the conventional wisdom surrounding the relationship between HIV/AIDS and food crises in the region. The NVF hypothesis...

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Access to Land and Poverty Reduction in Rural Zambia: Connecting the Policy Issues

Jayne, Thomas S.; Zulu, Ballard; Kajoba, Gear; Weber, … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009

Key Policy Message: - Despite having relatively low population densities, inadequate access to land is one of the major … policy, access to good quality land with a market potential may become increasingly beyond the reach of many small-scale farm …

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Potential for Intra-Regional Maize Trade in Southern Africa: an Analysis for Zambia at the Sub-National Level

Haggblade, Steven; Jayne, Thomas S.; Tschirley, David L.; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2008

This working paper explores the prospects for regional maize trade in helping to stabilize food availability and prices in Zambia. It reviews these general prospects within the maize economy of southern Africa. Given the important regional differences in Zambia’s food economy, it explores...

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Trends and Spatial Distribution of Public Agricultural Spending in Zambia: Implication for Agricultural Productivity Growth

Govereh, Jones; Malawo, Emma; Lungu, Tadeyo; Jayne, … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009

This paper assesses the level and composition of the Zambia’s public expenditures in the agricultural sector from 2000 to 2008. By measuring the size of public agricultural expenditures, the study will answer whether the Government of Zambia met CAADP’s target of allocating 10% of national...

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IS A PUBLIC REGULATION OF FOOD PRICE VOLATILITY FEASIBLE IN AFRICA? AN ARCH APPROACH IN KENYA

Maitre d'Hotel, Elodie; le Cotty, Tristan; Jayne, Thomas S. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2012

The 2007-2008 food crisis and current food price swings led economists to re-evaluate the potential for policy … policy to lower food price volatility does not depend on the nature of the policy instrument only, but also on the … tradition of public intervention, and by the persistence of highly volatile prices. The consistency of the policy use appears to …

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