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Agriculture provides the main support for Zambia’s rural economy, and because of this, growth in the agricultural … sector is the clearest avenue through which poverty reduction can be achieved in Zambia. Yet despite widespread recognition … public goods investments for over a decade. Zambia’s primary policy objective of achieving accelerated growth and …
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This paper assesses the level and composition of the Zambia’s public expenditures in the agricultural sector from 2000 … Zambia met CAADP’s target of allocating 10% of national budget to agriculture in 2008. Furthermore, examining what the fund …
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Investment in agriculture is necessary for ensuring rapid economic growth and poverty reduction in Zambia, as elsewhere … agricultural growth. Zambia currently allocates 6% of government outlays for agriculture. This is less that the 10% commitment … Zambia has made under the CAADP agreement and far less than the 15% spent by Asian countries at the launch of their Green …
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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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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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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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poverty, and relative deprivation among smallholder maize growers in Zambia. The analysis contributes to the literature by …
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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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Rapid urbanization in Zambia means that increasingly heavy demands are being placed on urban food marketing systems …
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The successful development and diffusion of improved maize seed in Zambia during the 1970s–80s was a major achievement …-generation (F1) hybrid maize seed in Zambia based on a survey of maize growers during the 2010/11 cropping season. …
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