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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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development policies in Mozambique and Zambia. Both countries face the challenge of organizing input supply to farmers in the … monopolies to interlink input and output markets and facilitate credit recovery. In Zambia, the government completely liberalized …. Despite being landlocked, Zambia's cotton sector has achieved better performance in terms of both value of cotton output per …
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, has been accompanied by calls for direct government action in food markets. This paper reviews how Zambia, Malawi, and … the interests of each and harms consumers and farmers; Malawi and Zambia have persistently fallen into this trap while …
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This paper assesses three of these policy initiatives: input credit provision for smallholder producers of selected cash crops including cotton, the proposed creation of a Cotton Board, and the emergence in 2003 of District Council levies as a point of conflict between local governments and...
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This report discusses the potential for procurement of food aid in local/regional markets to improve the effectiveness of response to food emergency victims. The paper examines the relevance of local/regional procurement (LRP) to donors and the rationale for using it, reviews LRP’s efficiency...
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commodities. This paper reviews experience with local and regional food aid procurement in Zambia. The study focuses primarily on …
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Cotton is an unquestioned success of Zambia’s turn towards a market economy. After privatization in late 1994, seed …
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KEY POLICY POINTS • Tourism is increasingly important in Zambia as a vehicle for economic growth, and has been …. Growth in arrivals and receipts in Zambia has outpaced average growth rates for developing countries. • Tourism in Zambia … management areas (GMAs). Co-management agreements between Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) and rural communities present …
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highly contaminated by world standards, much of it trades at a discount to Index A. 3. Zambia has been the outstanding … Dunavant and Cargill, made possible by company culture and by the concentrated structure of Zambia's industry 4. Quality (and …
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1. Zambia has paid among the best nominal seed cotton prices to farmers in SSA since 1995. 2. By a more refined measure … (share of FOT), during 1995-1999, Zambia paid prices comparable to those in Tanzania (a very competitive sector), and … substantially higher than in Mozambique and WCA. However, from 2000-2005, Zambia's pricing performance fell, and exceeded only …
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