Search results | Land Portal

Search results

Showing items 1 through 9 of 6.
  1. Library Resource

    Unlocking the Potential of Agribusiness

    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    March, 2013
    Kenya, Burkina Faso, Zambia, Ghana, Senegal, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa

    This report highlights the great potential of the agribusiness sector in Africa by drawing on experience in Africa as well as other regions. The evidence demonstrates that good policies, a conducive business environment, and strategic support from governments can help agribusiness reach its potential. Africa is now at a crossroads, from which it can take concrete steps to realize its potential or continue to lose competitiveness, missing a major opportunity for increased growth, employment, and food security. The report pursues several lines of analysis.

  2. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Zambia

    The report documents poverty in Zamia
    along a number of dimensions, including material
    deprivation, human deprivation, vulnerability, destitution,
    and social stigmatization. The report identified a number of
    basic actions to facilitate growth in the rural sector;
    these include (1) a (revived) system of regular manual
    maintenance of rural roads; (2) simple systems of animal
    disease control; animal movement control; health inspection

  3. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Zambia

    This report focuses on the potential and
    opportunities for smallholder commercialization in Zambia.
    The paper discusses the framework for Zambia's
    smallholder commercialization strategy, the current state of
    smallholder agriculture in Zambia, key issues, support from
    agribusiness to smallholders, and development of potential
    and opportunities for smallholder commercialization. The
    paper concludes with three strategy areas: how to strengthen

  4. Library Resource
    June, 2014
    Zambia

    In September 2013, the World Bank
    launched the second Zambia economic brief, entitled
    Zambia's jobs challenge: realities on the ground. This
    report presents response of the youth to the facts and
    figures shared in the Zambia economic brief. It gives a
    broad range of discussion, often provocative, as to how
    Zambia's employment challenges can be tackled. It
    discusses the issues as diverse as cultural mind-set,

  5. Library Resource
    September, 2015
    Zambia

    Three of sub-Saharan Africa’s central
    economic realities motivate this study. First, agriculture
    is the most important sector in most African economies, on
    average accounting for nearly one-fourth of GDP. Second, the
    private sector is increasingly active in transforming
    African agriculture and economies. By 2030, agriculture and
    agribusiness are anticipated to become a US$ 1 trillion
    industry in Africa, delivering more jobs, income, and

Land Library Search

Through our robust search engine, you can search for any item of the over 64,800 highly curated resources in the Land Library. 

If you would like to find an overview of what is possible, feel free to peruse the Search Guide


Share this page