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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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Rapid growth in urban populations and renewed growth in per capita incomes in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are creating major opportunities for local farmers by driving rapid growth in domestic market demand for food. At the same time, these trends plus rising income are putting enormous stress on...
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Daily quantities of tomato, rape and onion entering Soweto market in Lusaka fluctuate dramatically. The market does a remarkable job of moderating the impact on prices of these unstable quantities, through stabilizing mechanisms such as short-term storage of tomato and rape by traders and...
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Natural resource use, including land, and rural population location is an important topic for Zambia's development … strategy. Among other efforts, the Government of Zambia (GRZ) has designated 22% of total land area, as Game Management Areas …
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food security, poverty alleviation, and economic growth in Zambia. …
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Prepared for the COMESA policy seminar on “Variation in staple food prices: Causes, consequence, and policy options”, Maputo, Mozambique, 25-26 January 2010 under the Comesa-MSU-IFPRI African Agricultural Marketing Project (AAMP)
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, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Mozambique. In four of these countries, cotton is the first- or second most important …
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FOOD SECURITY RESEARCH PROJECT, LUSAKA, ZAMBIA …
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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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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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