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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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This policy brief highlights some of the key trends in Zambia agricultural production since the implementation of …
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Fertilizer Marketing in Zambia: Commercial Trading, Government Programs and the Smallholder Farmer.” The key objective of this … sector in their efforts to improve the performance of the fertilizer marketing system in Zambia. …
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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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causes of rural poverty in Zambia. - The apparent paradox of inadequate access to land for many rural households in a country … to make settlement economically viable have yet been made in many areas of Zambia. - Depending of future land allocation …
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The debate on fertilizer reform process in Zambia has two contrasting views. Some stakeholders continue to be convinced … and private sector stakeholders in Zambia’s agricultural sector. The objectives of the study were to describe how the … consideration by government. First, the general trends in the importation of fertilizer into Zambia and the contributions of …
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One objective of this paper is to examine the trends and changes in crop production before and after the implementation of the partial market liberalization policies starting in the early 1990s. Another objective of the paper is to assess agricultural production performance and its implications...
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makers and private stakeholders in Zambia’s cotton sector, and has four main purposes: (a) To provide a detailed descriptive …
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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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