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A catalogue of tested crop, soil, and water management options under varied land degradation conditions and socio-economic environment in the target areas in Tanzania, Malawi, and Zambia

Reports & Research
November, 2012
Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa
water management
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A catalogue of tested crop, soil, and water management options under varied land degradation conditions and socio-economic environment in the target areas in Tanzania, Malawi, and Zambia: Africa RISING early wins project proposal

Reports & Research
April, 2012
Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa
water management
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A catalogue of tested crop, soil, and water management options under varied land degradation conditions and socio-economic environment in the target areas in Tanzania, Malawi, and Zambia: Report of the Africa RISING early wins project inception worksho...

Reports & Research
May, 2012
Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa
water management
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Africa Can Help Feed Africa

Removing Barriers to Regional Trade in Food Staples

Reports & Research
Training Resources & Tools
October, 2012
Kenya, Zambia, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Malawi, Niger, Sub-Saharan Africa, Western Africa, Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
agriculture
climate change
farmers
food security
rural areas
transaction costs
Africa's growing demand for food has been met increasingly by imports from the global market. This, coupled with rising global food prices, brings ever-mounting food import bills. In addition, population growth and changing demand patterns will double demands over the next 10 years. Two key issues must be addressed: (a) establishing a consistent and stable policy environment for regional trade in fertilizers; and (b) investing in institutions that reduce the transaction costs of coordination failures.
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Agrarian changes in the Nyimba District of Zambia

Reports & Research
May, 2012
Zambia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land Conflicts
agrarian structure
agricultural and rural legislation
agricultural land management
Over the past decade issues pertaining to land sharing/land sparing have gained some space in the debate on the study of land-use strategies and their associated impacts at landscape level. State and non-state actors have, through their interests and actions, triggered changes at the landscape level and this report is a synthesis of some of the main findings and contributions of a scoping study carried out in Zambia as part of CIFOR’s Agrarian Change Project. It focuses on findings in three villages located in the Nyimba District.
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Agribusiness Indicators

Zambia

Reports & Research
Training Resources & Tools
December, 2012
Zambia, Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
agriculture
environment
farmers
food security
rural areas
urban areas
Agriculture and agribusiness play an important role in the Zambian economy, contributing around 20 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in recent years and about 12 percent of national export earnings. Agriculture employs nearly 70 percent of the labor force and remains the main source of income and employment for most of the people living in rural areas. The objective of the Zambia agribusiness indicators (ABI) country report is to examine factors that have affected agricultural productivity, market access, and the policy environment for agriculture in Zambia.
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An Empirical Economic Assessment of Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture in Zambia

June, 2012
Zambia
climate change
desertification
farmers
farming systems
fisheries
food security
grazing
land use
This report assesses the economic
impacts of climate change on agriculture in Zambia, using
the Ricardian method. A multiple linear regression model
with net revenue per hectare as response variable has been
fitted with climate, hydrological, soil, and socioeconomic
variables as explanatory variables. There is one main
cropping season in Zambia, lasting from November to April.
Crop production in this period depends solely on rains.
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Cartographie des Zones Socio-Rurales - Un outil d’aide à la planification pour la gestion de l’eau en agriculture. Burkina Faso

Reports & Research
December, 2012
Burkina Faso, Zambia, Mali, Togo, Tanzania, Ghana, India, Ethiopia, Niger, Gabon, Africa
climate change
water management
The AgWater Solutions Project aimed at designing agricultural water management (AWM) strategies for smallholder farmers in sub Saharan Africa and in India. The project was managed by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and operated jointly with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Stockholm Environmental Institute (SEI) and International Development Enterprise (IDE).
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Catalogue of tested crop, soil, and water management options in target areas of Tanzania, Malawi, and Zambia

October, 2012
Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa
water management
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Conservation agriculture in eastern and southern provinces of Zambia: Long-term effects on soil quality and maize productivity

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2012
Zambia, Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
sustainable land management
Sustainable and resilient cropping systems are required in southern Africa to arrest declining soil fertility and offset the future negative effects of climate change. Conservation agriculture (CA) has been proposed as a potential system for improving soil quality and providing stable yields through minimum soil disturbance, surface crop residue retention (mulching) and crop rotations or associations. However, concerns have been raised about the lack of evidence of the benefits of CA for small-scale farmers in southern Africa.