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Where Do Urban Households in Zambia Buy their Livestock Products?
Hichaambwa, Munguzwe - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource …
Livestock products and fish form an important component of urban consumers’ diet accounting for about one third of the total monthly budgetary expenditure on food. The budgetary share of livestock products increases with affluence or household income while the opposite is true for fish; 2) The...
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Urban Consumption Patterns of Livestock Products in Zambia and Implications for Policy
Hichaambwa, Munguzwe - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2012
Rapid urbanization in Zambia means that increasingly heavy demands are being placed on urban food marketing systems …
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Implication of Micronutrients in Agriculture and Health with Special Reference to Iron and Zinc
Govindaraj, M.; Kannan, P.; Arunachalam, P. - In: International Journal of Agricultural Management and … 01 (2011) 4
(WHO) has estimated that over 3 billion people in the globe suffer from the micronutrient malnutrition and about 2 billion …
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Better nutrition for children in Uganda: The policy makers role
Ibrahim, Kasirye - Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) - 2012
age of five suffer from severe acute malnutrition About half a million pregnant and lactating women suffer from anaemia …
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Household and environmental factors influencing anthropometric outcomes in pre-school children in a rural Ethiopian community
Okike, I O; Jabbar, Mohammad A. - International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), … - 2005
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Emerging Challenges for Food and Nutrition Policy in Developing Countries
Stamoulis, Kostas G.; Pingali, Prabhu L.; Shetty, Prakash - In: eJADE: electronic Journal of Agricultural and … 1 (2004) 2
As the income and the average caloric intake of developing country populations increase, a relative shift in diets is taking place. The general pattern of change can be described as a shift towards more 'westernized' diets and away from traditional ones. Accompanying this dietary trend are the...
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Nutrition in Central Uganda - An Estimation of a Minimum Cost Healthy Diet
Badirwang, Keeletlhoko Faith; Nakakeeto, Gertrude; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011
This study makes use of linear programming methodology to design a minimum cost diet for the Central Ugandan region. We used a set of constraints on recommended levels of daily nutrient intake, recommended proportions of groups of foods, as well as preferences and food availability in Central...
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Agricultural Trade Flows among Developing Countries: Do Regional Preferential Trade Agreements make a Difference?
Tembo, Gelson; Jayne, Thomas S. - 2009
to study Zambia’s regional agricultural trade flows and the impact of the SADC Trade Protocol (SADC-TP). Zambia’s volume … of trade is significantly related to most of the standard gravity variables. The results indicate that Zambia has been … largely trading below potential, especially with respect to exports. There have been improvements in Zambia’s trade flows …
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Supply Response of Export Crops in Zambia: The Case of Coffee
Mofya-Mukuka, Rhoda; Abdulai, Awudu - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2012
1) Export diversification has long been at the centre of Zambia’s economic diversification policies. This article … Zambia is mainly grown for export, the changes in real exchange have the most significant effect on supply in that a …
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Agricultural Transformation in Zambia: Alternative Institutional Models for Accelerating Agricultural Productivity Growth, and Commercialization
Chapoto, Antony; Haggblade, Steven; Hichaambwa, Munguzwe; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2012
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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