, capital, and land size significantly influence household food security. Food security programmes, in subsistence economies …

engage in various agricultural activities. Land is a critical asset for the rural poor and lacking means to appropriately … study presents empirical relationship between land and poverty using Foster, Greer and Thorbecke weighted poverty measure …

welfare indicators. We first present evidence to explain how land constraints can be emerging within an overall context of … apparent land under-utilization. Using data from five panel surveys on 1,146 small-scale farms over the 1997-2010 period, we …

Key Policy Message: - Despite having relatively low population densities, inadequate access to land is one of the major … causes of rural poverty in Zambia. - The apparent paradox of inadequate access to land for many rural households in a country … of low population density is partially reconciled when taking into account that economically viable arable land requires …