Can Increasing Smallholder Farm Size Broadly Reduce Rural Poverty in Zambia?

Despite Zambia’s sustained and fairly robust agricultural growth since 2000, rural poverty levels have remained at about 80% over the past 15 years. Because over 70% of Zambia’s agricultural households are small-scale farmers cultivating less than two hectares of land, they must effectively contribute to agricultural growth if the process of growth is to be broadly based in Zambia.

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Year of publication:	2014-05
Authors:	Hichaambwa, Munguzwe ; Jayne, T.S.
Institutions:	Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, Michigan State University
Subject:	Food Security and Poverty \| Land Economics/Use

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Food Security Collaborative Policy Briefs.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	The text is part of a series Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics>Food Security Collaborative Policy Briefs Number 171876
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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