engage in various agricultural activities. Land is a critical asset for the rural poor and lacking means to appropriately … study presents empirical relationship between land and poverty using Foster, Greer and Thorbecke weighted poverty measure …

welfare indicators. We first present evidence to explain how land constraints can be emerging within an overall context of … apparent land under-utilization. Using data from five panel surveys on 1,146 small-scale farms over the 1997-2010 period, we …

nationally-representative survey results from Zambia. Efforts to safeguard widows’ rights to land through land tenure innovations … widows are able to retain land. Increased government commitment to ensure security of widows’ access to land is another …

the difficulties that widows and their dependents face in retaining access to land after the death of their husbands. HIV … survey data on the extent to which widows lose their rights to land after the death of their husbands, whether they lose all … or part of the land they were formerly controlling, and whether there are certain characteristics of the widow, her …

percent less land than what they had prior to their husband’s death. 3. To some extent, older widows are protected against … loss of land compared to younger widows. 4. Women in relatively wealthy households are particularly vulnerable to losing … land after the death of their husbands. 5. Widows whose family has kinship ties to the village authorities are less likely …

Key Policy Message: - Despite having relatively low population densities, inadequate access to land is one of the major … causes of rural poverty in Zambia. - The apparent paradox of inadequate access to land for many rural households in a country … of low population density is partially reconciled when taking into account that economically viable arable land requires …

-sectoral economic model (LEITAP) with a spatial bio-physical land use model (IMAGE). This paper adds to existing research by considering … prices and greenhouse gas emissions from land use, do not necessarily react proportionally to increasing demand for …