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 …

Zambia's record-breaking maize harvest of nearly 2.8 million metric tons (MT) in 2010 is a major achievement and a …

agriculture in Malawi and Zambia are summarized. Implications for policy and research are drawn. A case for increased public … spending on agriculture is presented first, followed by a region-wide perspective and a focus on Malawi and Zambia. … know what public spending on agriculture sector will have the largest impact on the poor and how the resources should be …

Zambia's strong dependence on copper exports has suppressed other tradables sectors, indicative of a Dutch disease …

access to food. Zambia, like most countries in Southern Africa, is vigorously pursuing continued direct public sector …

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 … in urban areas by 2040. Given this urbanization trajectory, to be effective, policies to promote smallholder agriculture …

Zambia. However, evidence presented in this paper shows that economically viable arable land is not in great abundance in … Zambia after considering the current situation with respect to access to road infrastructure and access to services and … markets. In fact, access to land is already a major problem for large segments of the rural population in Zambia. Moreover …