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As contract farming is a useful arrangement that integrates smallholder farmers in the agricultural value chain in developing countries, it is essential for agricultural policies focusing on rural development to implement and promote such initiatives. However, as sorghum farmers are reluctant to...
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Zambia's efforts to promote countrywide production of sorghum is backed by a number of apropos factors. It is not only an adaptive response to the climate change challenge, but also a dietary diversity improvement measure, to achieve food and nutrition security. Further, improved sorghum...
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of these programs. This article considers one such program, the Zambian Food Reserve Agency (FRA), which purchases maize … from smallholder farmers at a pan-territorial price that typically exceeds maize market prices in surplus production areas … effects of the FRA's maize marketing activities on smallholder farm household welfare. Results suggest that FRA activities …
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