Rapid urbanization in Zambia means that increasingly heavy demands are being placed on urban food marketing systems …

• The Zambia Urban Consumption Survey, a survey of 1,865 urban households in Lusaka, Kitwe, Mansa, and Kasama, was … conducted in August 2007 and February 2008 by the Central Statistical Office in collaboration with the Zambia Food Security … terms of urban consumer expenditures. Maize is no longer the dominant staple food in urban Zambia, except among the poor …

Zambia’s population clusters tightly in cities along the north-south line of rail and in the primarily rural areas of … Malawi. Zambia’s staple food production and sales likewise cluster spatially in three main areas: along the line of rail, in … the large commercial farming blocks of north-central Zambia, and to a lesser extent in Eastern Province (Figure 6). This …

1) One can achieve poverty reduction in rural areas of Zambia by both growth and inequality reduction, but growth must …

the poor on forest resources. Studies of the role of forest products in household welfare in Zambia have found that such … role of non-timber forest products NTFPs) in rural household welfare in Zambia, with two main objectives. First, using …

millions of rural farmers out of poverty in Zambia’s Eastern Province through the implementation of the Feed the Future program … sector. Investing in sunflower may be ideal for promoting rural welfare, however much poverty reducing potential may go … unrealized in Zambia’s rural areas if the current status quo is unchanged. …

schooling, and enrollment rates have risen dramatically. At the same time, Zambia has faced the challenge of rising HIV … constraints. This paper uses panel survey data from rural Zambia to measure the impact of WA adult mortality and morbidity on …