With cotton sector reform in much of SSA a decade old, it is now possible to review the empirical record and begin drawing lessons from experience. This paper assesses the record of five countries in southern and eastern Africa: Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Mozambique. In four of...

Institute of Agricultural Research of Mozambique Directorate of Training, Documentation, and Technology Transfer

The purpose of this paper is to begin generating the empirical information needed to launch a process of stakeholder consultation regarding the key challenges facing the country’s horticultural sector. The paper is based on a rapid appraisal of the sector meant to provide a broad overview;...

The mission aimed at evaluating cereal markets in order to inform and advise decision- makers. The mission noted a drop in the price of rice in the region of the Office du Niger due to the increase in the off-season cultivated acreages and the adequate supply of fertilizers to the region....

Institute of Agricultural Research of Mozambique; Directorate of Training, Documentation, and Technology Transfer

A consensus exists that extension services, if functioning effectively, improve agricultural productivity through providing farmers with information that helps them to optimize their use of limited resources. Variations in management practices and husbandry skills among small farmers in Kenya...

Smallholder farmers operate in vertical supply chains. Therefore, an understanding of key opportunities and constraints up through the value chain becomes necessary for sustaining smallholder growth. Yet market analysis is of little value unless key private and public sector stakeholders agree...

Agriculture provides the main support for Zambia’s rural economy, and because of this, growth in the agricultural sector is the clearest avenue through which poverty reduction can be achieved in Zambia. Yet despite widespread recognition of the strong connection between agricultural...

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Directorate of Economics, Republic of Mozambique