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contract the disease. Studies conducted in Sub-Saharan Africa during the 1980s generally found a positive correlation between … support this. An emerging strand of the literature on the AIDS epidemic in Africa posits that poverty is increasingly …-related causes in Zambia and Kenya. …
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Major Findings: The additional maize produced from a given amount of fertilizer applied varied widely across households even after largely controlling for soil and rainfall conditions. The median estimated response rate was 15.9kgs of maize per kg nitrogen applied; Under the range of conditions...
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in Africa. There are many important and often complementary determinants of agricultural productivity. In this brief and …
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national policy objectives. These insights from Zambia can hopefully move forward the continuing debate in the region on how …
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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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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 spatial differences in national food production, consumption and marketed … Zambia. The empirical evidence from Zambia, summarized in this paper, suggests that both consumers and farmers stand to …
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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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they spend their money. In Zambia’s case, there is reasonably accurate information on production levels and trends in a … production and marketing patterns in Zambia’s small- and medium-scale farm sector, examines how these patterns vary regionally … in Zambia is focused on maize, the study provides a particular emphasis on small farmers’ maize production and marketing …
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This paper assesses the level and composition of the Zambia’s public expenditures in the agricultural sector from 2000 … Zambia met CAADP’s target of allocating 10% of national budget to agriculture in 2008. Furthermore, examining what the fund …
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