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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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Agricultural input subsidies often have implicit or explicit political economy objectives. Using panel data from Zambia …
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development policies in Mozambique and Zambia. Both countries face the challenge of organizing input supply to farmers in the … monopolies to interlink input and output markets and facilitate credit recovery. In Zambia, the government completely liberalized …. Despite being landlocked, Zambia's cotton sector has achieved better performance in terms of both value of cotton output per …
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Food relief for vulnerable groups is important in times of deficit. For the remainder of the population, well functioning grain markets can save lives during times of food shortfalls. This note illustrates how predictable Government behavior in the market can improve markets’ ability to meet...
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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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Cotton is an unquestioned success of Zambia’s turn towards a market economy. After privatization in late 1994, seed …
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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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