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With only a few months remaining, Zambia still has a long way to achieving the millennium development goal of halving … the number of stunted children by the end of 2015. Almost half of the children in Zambia remain undernourished and 40% of … them have stunted growth, a long term malnutrition effect. This makes Zambia one of the countries with the highest levels …
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Because gender roles and relations are dynamic, programs built on a solid up-to-date understanding of how men and women share labor responsibilities and the proceeds from their agricultural activities have the potential to bring forth positive outcomes. Better information on gender-based...
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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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both rural and urban areas. In Zambia, most rural households residing near forests extract a range of forest products for …
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Rapid urbanization in Zambia means that increasingly heavy demands are being placed on urban food marketing systems …
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The successful development and diffusion of improved maize seed in Zambia during the 1970s–80s was a major achievement …-generation (F1) hybrid maize seed in Zambia based on a survey of maize growers during the 2010/11 cropping season. …
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, especially among the rural farmers in Zambia and other developing countries. However, smallholder livestock producers are …
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All governments require accurate information on how the economy functions in order to formulate and implement sound agricultural policies. Policies to ensure food security are no different. Efforts to keep food prices at tolerable levels require information about the competitiveness of the...
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years numerous countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) including Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Senegal, Tanzania, and Zambia … and seed. In Zambia between 2004 and 2011, an average of 40% of the government’s agricultural sector budget was devoted to …
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