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illustrate its feasibility with an example from the education sector in Zambia. …
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Large-scale agricultural investments (LSAIs) typically depend on strong formal institutions and market-oriented intensive farming, whereas informal institutions tend to characterize the traditional villages located around them. We investigate changes to social capital in such villages when LSAIs...
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This paper examines the rise of the social protection agenda in Zambia, and demonstrates that this has two alternative … drivers: shifting dynamics within Zambia's political settlement and the promotional efforts of a transnational policy … which such transfers become integrated within Zambia's distributional regime. …
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introduction of mandatory blending rates in 2014. Land and water constraints, however, limit domestic supply ability. Zambia, due … socio-economic impacts of bioethanol production in Zambia under both commercial and smallholder farming models, including …
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Given unsuccessful experiences to date in establishing large-scale investments for biofuels in Zambia, this paper …
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Expansion of biofuels production and consumption at the regional and national levels relies on both supportive energy prices and policy interventions. Despite enthusiasm for policy interventions to stimulate biofuel production in Southern African countries in the mid-2000s, the years since have...
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the biofuels industry in Zambia, as a land-abundant country, for the local and wider Southern African market. It …
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association between age and transactional sex work using national household surveys from Zambia, one of the few settings with …
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acquisitions. We analyse the social and biophysical constraints to biofuel production expansion in Zambia. Previously social … constraints have received limited attention even though they may prove more problematic. Results indicate that Zambia is at least …
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households in Zambia. The extension of funding of conservation farming (CF) training sessions in 2007 in specific districts in … Zambia provides variation in CF takeup. We use this variation to implement a difference-in-differences strategy on a number …
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