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  1. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2003
    Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Zambia

    Despite substantial economic liberalization since the early 1990s, nontraditional exports in Zambia have grown only moderately and agricultural performance overall has been disappointing. Though agriculture accounts for less than 20 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), it is the most important source of employment, especially for women. Interpretations of Zambia’s poor performance variously emphasize external factors, such as declining copper prices and vulnerability to weather shocks, and market imperfections.

  2. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2003
    Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Southern Asia, Bangladesh, Nepal, South Africa, Ethiopia, Ghana, Zambia

    This book synthesizes IFPRI's recent work on the role of gender in household decisionmaking in developing countries, provides evidence on how reducing gender gaps can contribute to improved food security, health, and nutrition in developing countries, and gives examples of interventions that actually work to reduce gender disparities. It is an accessible, easy-to-read synthesis of the gender research that IFPRI has undertaken in the 1990s.

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    November, 2014
    Zambia

    Supporting smallholder farmers is one of the best ways to fight poverty and ensure food security. Such support involving the active participation of smallholder farmers in Zambia has demonstrated a significant increase in farmers’ engagement in general and an improvement in milk production, resulting in nutritional food security both at household and national level and income for the poor farmers.

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2011
    Southern Africa, Eastern Africa, Tanzania, Zambia

    Les pays du sud et de l’est de l’Afrique sont confrontés à des pénuries alimentaires récurrentes. Pour lutter contre l’urgence alimentaire et éviter que les produits alimentaires ne quittent le pays, les gouvernements imposent des restrictions commerciales et interviennent sur les marchés. Dans ce contexte, les échanges transfrontaliers entre les zones défi citaires et excédentaires sont susceptibles de contribuer à la sécurité alimentaire régionale. Cet article est basé sur les résultats d’une étude menée dans la région frontalière entre la Tanzanie et la Zambie.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2007
    Zambia

    1. The percentage of households that are headed by widows in rural Zambia increased from 9.4 % to 12.3% between 2001 and 2004.2. Within 1 to 3 years after the death of their husbands, widow-headed households, on average, controlled 35 percent less land than what they had prior to their husband’s death.3. To some extent, older widows are protected against loss of land compared to younger widows.4. Women in relatively wealthy households are particularly vulnerable to losing land after the death of their husbands.5.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2007
    Zambia, Africa

    The view that widows and their dependents face greater livelihood risks in the era of HIV/AIDS is indeed supported by nationally-representative survey results from Zambia. Efforts to safeguard widows’ rights to land through land tenure innovations involving community authorities may be an important component of social protection, poverty alleviation, and HIV/AIDS mitigation strategies. Several of the findings reported show the influence of local traditional authorities in affecting the extent to which widows are able to retain land.

  7. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    October, 2009
    Zambia

    Key Policy Message:- Despite having relatively low population densities, inadequate access to land is one of the major causes of rural poverty in Zambia.- The apparent paradox of inadequate access to land for many rural households in a country of low population density is partially reconciled when taking into account that economically viable arable land requires at least some degree of access to basic services, water, road infrastructure, and markets.

  8. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2008
    Zambia, Africa

    This paper provides arguments for discussions of the role of property rights for food security and child nutrition in rural Africa. The results are drawn from a case study in the Kafue Flats of Zambia. They show that unclear jurisdictional boundaries and weak authorities facilitated re-negotiations of property rights related to natural resources in the context of the Southern African food crisis 2002-2003. Access to natural resources was skewed towards the more powerful.

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2006
    Zambia

    Beyond the obvious catastrophic effects of the HIV/AIDS pandemic on mortality, demographicchanges, and the suffering of individuals and their families, we are still only learning about thecomplex longer-term effects of the pandemic on poverty and vulnerability. For example, theHIV/AIDS pandemic has substantially increased the number of widow-headed households inAfrica. A huge number of conceptual and qualitative studies highlight gender inequalities inproperty rights, and the difficulties that widows and their dependents face in retaining access toland after the death of their husbands.

  10. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2003
    Zambia

    The study reported in this paper measures differences in profitability betweenconservation farming (CF) practices and conventional agriculture by comparing the value ofdifferential output with the differential input costs. The main objective is to address and fillseveral important knowledge gaps by investigating three key features of conservationfarming in Zambia: 1) the process by which CF originated and spread; 2) the scale of CF adoption across household groups and regions; and 3) the impact of CF on crop output, input use, cost of production and farm income.

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