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FOOD SECURITY RESEARCH PROJECT, LUSAKA, ZAMBIA …
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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 … and improved urban food marketing system performance in Zambia will need to take into consideration the demand patterns of …
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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 …
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More effective policies are needed to improve access and secure rights to land and other natural resources for various stakeholders, particularly smallholder farmers. Service delivery at all levels of governance needs to be restructured and strengthened in order to promote and improve economic...
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Replaced with revised version of paper 06/16/10.
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Key Policy Points - Game Management Areas (GMAs) in Zambia aim to combine nature conservation with economic empowerment …
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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 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 …
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The triple challenge of rapid population growth, declining agricultural productivity, and natural resource degradation are not isolated from one another; they are intimately related. However, strategic planning and development programming tend to focus on individual sectors such as the...
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This paper surveys the literature on pollinator declines and related concerns regarding global food security. Methods for valuing the economic risks associated with pollinator declines are also reviewed. A computable general equilibrium (CGE) approach is introduced to assess the effects of a...
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