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Where Do Urban Households in Zambia Buy their Livestock Products?
Hichaambwa, Munguzwe - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource …
Livestock products and fish form an important component of urban consumers’ diet accounting for about one third of the total monthly budgetary expenditure on food. The budgetary share of livestock products increases with affluence or household income while the opposite is true for fish; 2) The...
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Urban Consumption Patterns of Livestock Products in Zambia and Implications for Policy
Hichaambwa, Munguzwe - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2012
Rapid urbanization in Zambia means that increasingly heavy demands are being placed on urban food marketing systems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010913291
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Better nutrition for children in Uganda: The policy makers role
Ibrahim, Kasirye - Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) - 2012
age of five suffer from severe acute malnutrition About half a million pregnant and lactating women suffer from anaemia …
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Household and environmental factors influencing anthropometric outcomes in pre-school children in a rural Ethiopian community
Okike, I O; Jabbar, Mohammad A. - International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), … - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011246229
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Staple Food Consumption Patterns in Urban Zambia: Results from the 2007/2008 Urban Consumption Survey
Mason, Nicole M.; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009
After two decades of de-urbanization, Zambia is again becoming increasingly urban. While the urban share of the … population fell to 35% in 2000 due primarily to the decline of the copper industry, over half of Zambia’s people will be residing … and improved urban food marketing system performance in Zambia will need to take into consideration the demand patterns of …
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Nutrition Effects of the Supermarket Revolution on Urban Consumers and Smallholder Farmers in Kenya
Qaim, Matin; Andersson, Camilla I.M.; Chege, Christine G.K. - Institut für Agrarökonomie, Georg-August-Universität … - 2014
Food systems in developing countries are transforming, involving a rapid expansion of supermarkets. This supermarket revolution may affect dietary patterns and nutrition, but empirical evidence is scarce. The few existing studies have analyzed implications for food consumers and producers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011155538
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Nutrition Effects of the Supermarket Revolution on Urban Consumers and Smallholder Farmers in Kenya
Qaim, Matin; Andersson, Camilla I.M.; Chege, Christine G.K. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014
Food systems in developing countries are transforming, involving a rapid expansion of supermarkets. This supermarket revolution may affect dietary patterns and nutrition, but empirical evidence is scarce. The few existing studies have analyzed implications for food consumers and producers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011068519
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Do input subsidies crowd in or crowd out other soil fertility management practices? Evidence from Zambia
Levine, Kendra; Mason, Nicole M. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014
It is recognized that inorganic fertilizer, as is commonly distributed in large-­‐scale input subsidy programs, must be used along with soil fertility management (SFM) practices in order to maximize its efficacy. We use nationally representative data with 8,839 household observations to...
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Rural land rental markets in Southern Africa: trends, drivers, and impacts on household welfare in Malawi and Zambia
Chamberlin, Jordan; Ricker-Gilbert, Jacob - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA
This is a draft paper, submitted in advance of presentation at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association.
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Analysis of the Sunflower Value Chain in Zambia’s Eastern Province.
Lubungu, Mary; Burke, William J.; Sitko, Nicholas J. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2014
millions of rural farmers out of poverty in Zambia’s Eastern Province through the implementation of the Feed the Future program … unrealized in Zambia’s rural areas if the current status quo is unchanged. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010937362