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Development, Diffusion and Impact of Conservation Farming in Zambia
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Haggblade,   Steven; Tembo,   Gelson.
The study reported in this paper measures differences in profitability between conservation farming (CF) practices and conventional agriculture by comparing the value of differential output with the differential input costs. The main objective is to address and fill several important knowledge gaps by investigating three key features of conservation farming 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.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Conservation farming; Zambia; Conventional agriculture; Farm Management; Land Economics/Use; Q18.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54464

Returns to Investment in Agriculture
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Haggblade,   Steven.
Investment in agriculture is necessary for ensuring rapid economic growth and poverty reduction in Zambia, as elsewhere in Africa. Yet many of the key investments required to accelerate agricultural growth – technological research, rural infrastructure and market standards, organization and enforcement -- are public goods. Because the private sector cannot capture gains from these investments, they will not invest in amounts sufficient to ensure broad-based agricultural growth. Therefore, the public sector needs to provide the necessary research, transport and market infrastructure necessary to stimulate agricultural growth. Zambia currently allocates 6% of government outlays for agriculture. This is less that the 10% commitment Zambia has made under the...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Zambia; Agriculture growth; Public investment; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; Q19.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54625

Potential Impact of the Kwacha Appreciation on Zambia Agriculture
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Fynn,   John; Haggblade,   Steven.
The rapid recent appreciation of the Kwacha has placed these gains at risk. The sudden  strengthening of the Kwacha since November 2005 has reduced the Kwacha value of agricultural  exports by 30%, forcing reductions in farmgate prices and eroding exporter profit margins. As in  a classic case of Dutch Disease, large inflows of foreign exchange–whether from surging  international copper prices, foreign aid or speculative financial inflows–have contributed to the  strengthening Kwacha. The subsequent rapid appreciation of the Kwacha risks making much of  Zambia’s export agriculture uncompetitive on world markets.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Zambia; Appreciation impact; Farm Management; Q18.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54617

The Effect of Policy and Policy Reforms on Non-Agricultural Enterprises and Employment in Developing Countries: A Review of Past Experiences
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Haggblade,   Steven; Liedholm,   Carl; Mead,   Donald C.
This paper explores two sets of issues. The first concerns the magnitude of policy  induced distortions in developing countries and the impact of these distortions on the economy,  paying special attention to differential impacts between firms of different sizes and resulting  effects on the level of employment. The second concerns the prior experience of donors and the  LDC governments with the process of policy change.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; International Development; Downloads December 2008 - June 2009: 3; Q18.
Ano: 1986
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54744

Zambia's 2005 Maize Import and Marketing Experiences: Lessons and Implications
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Mwanaumo,   Anthony; Jayne,   Thomas S.; Zulu,   Ballard; Shawa,   Julius J.; Mbozi,   Green; Haggblade,   Steven; Nyembe,   Misheck.
This paper shows how government actions can affect the performance of the maize  marketing system and influence the severity of food crises. Examples from the 2005/06 marketing  season are used to illustrate how Zambia’s food security situation can be improved through closer  consultation, transparency and predictability between government and the private sector. The  paper also identifies longer-run options for strengthening the ability of local and regional  markets to ensure household and national food security in the face of maize production  instability.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Zambia; Maize; Crop Production/Industries; Q18.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54615

Bringing the Poor into a Growth Agenda: What Role for Africa’s Rural Nonfarm Economy?
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Haggblade,   Steven.
Distributed as: Appendix 1. Background Paper for Agriculture and Lands. African Ministers Meeting, April 2009. Prepared under the Food Security III Cooperative Agreement (GDG-A- 00-02-00021-00) between the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Michigan State University, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Agriculture; Growth; Poor; Food security; Food Security and Poverty; Q12.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/57446

Local and Regional Food Aid Procurement in Zambia
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Haggblade,   Steven; Tschirley,   David L.
By law, US food aid relies on commodity procurement in the US. A powerful political coalition of US farm groups, shippers and relief agencies vigorously supports these in-kind food aid donation. As an alternative, local procurement of food aid, in Africa, has attracted growing interest because of its potential to reduce landed costs and speed delivery times. For this reason, many food aid donors, other than the US, have switched to local and regional procurement of food aid commodities. This paper reviews experience with local and regional food aid procurement in Zambia. The study focuses primarily on experience of the World Food Programme (WFP), the agency with the most extensive experience conducting local and regional procurement in Africa. WFP’s...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Food security; Policy; Zambia; Africa; Food aid; Crop Production/Industries; Q18.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54487

Household Level Financial Incentives to Adoption of Conservation Agricultural Technologies in Africa
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Haggblade,   Steven; Tembo,   Gelson; Donovan,   Cynthia.
Although several studies have been conducted to determine the viability of conservation agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa, almost all such studies are fragmented – often country specific – and with undue emphasis on output effects. However, assessment of the attractiveness of these technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa requires a detailed case-by-case comparison of changes in output and input costs and benefits. This paper reviews a set of responses known collectively as “conservation” or “sustainable” agriculture. Though definitions vary, these technologies typically involve agricultural management practices that prevent degradation of soil and water resources and thereby permit sustainable farm productivity without environmental degradation.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Conservation; Sustainable agriculture; Crop Production/Industries; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; Q18.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54466

Potential for Intra-Regional Maize Trade in Southern Africa: an Analysis for Zambia at the Sub-National Level
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Haggblade,   Steven; Jayne,   Thomas S.; Tschirley,   David L.; Longabaugh,   Steven.
This working paper explores the prospects for regional                         maize trade in helping to stabilize food availability and prices                          in Zambia. It reviews these general prospects within the                         maize economy of southern Africa. Given the important                         regional differences in Zambia’s food economy, it explores                         spatial differences in national food production, consumption                         and marketed surpluses. It also evaluates the impact of                         regional maize trade on price stability and food security in                         different parts of Zambia. The empirical evidence from                         Zambia, summarized in this...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Food security; Policy; Zambia; Africa; Maize; Trade; Crop Production/Industries; Q17.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54494

Commercial Dynamics in Zambia’s Cassava Value Chain
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Haggblade,   Steven; Nyembe,   Misheck.
Cassava production has grown rapidly in Zambia since the early 1990’s. Available evidence suggests that volumes of traded cassava have been increasing roughly twice as fast as production.  Yet this cassava production boom could stall unless commercial markets for it develop. To help accelerate commercial development of cassava and cassava-based products at the national level, Zambia’s Agricultural Consultative Forum (ACF) initiated an Acceleration of Cassava Utilization (ACU) Task Force, beginning in August 2005. At a regional level, efforts such as the Cassava Transformation in Southern Africa (CATISA) project aim to complement national efforts and help facilitate regional spillovers, so that new products, new technologies or new lessons can help to...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Food security; Policy; Zambia; Africa; Cassava; Agribusiness; Crop Production/Industries; Q18.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54491

Potential Consequences of Intra-Regional Trade in Short-Term Food Security Crises in Southeastern Africa
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Haggblade,   Steven; Nielson,   Hunter; Govereh,   Jones; Dorosh,   Paul A.
A report prepared by Michigan State University for the World Bank under contract No. 7144132, Strengthening Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa through Trade Liberalization and Regional Integration
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Africa; Trade; Emergency; Food Security and Poverty; International Relations/Trade; Q13.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55376

Dynamic Pathways into and out of Poverty: A Case of Small Holder Farmers in Zambia
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Banda,   Diana J.; Hamukwala,   Priscilla; Haggblade,   Steven; Chapoto,   Antony.
The study surveyed 127 households from Central, Eastern, Luapula, Northern, and Southern Provinces of Zambia. The primary objective was to explore life-trajectory patterns and key drivers of welfare change. Households were classified based on long term poverty dynamics i.e., how they perceived their welfare compared to that of their parents with the major focus being on households that were better off (BO) than both the parents (parents of head and spouse) and those that were worse off (WO) than both parents were. Poverty was mainly defined from the communities' own perspectives and entailed exploring reasons perceived by participants for decline or improvement in people’s well-being in their communities. The hypotheses that factors such as household...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Zambia; Poverty; Small Holder Farmers; Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Security and Poverty.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/113649

Agricultural Growth Linkages in Ethiopia: Estimates using Fixed and Flexible Price Models
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Diao,   Xinshen; Fekadu,   Belay; Haggblade,   Steven; Taffesse,   Alemayehu Seyoum; Wamisho,   Kassu; Yu,   Bingxin.
Accelerating growth and poverty reduction, and the ultimate achievement of structural transformation, are the critical policy challenges in present day Ethiopia. This paper examines relevant growth options in terms of their impact on overall growth and poverty reduction in the country. It deploys a fixed-price semi-input-output model and a flexible-price economy-wide multi-market model for that purpose. The paper finds that agricultural growth can induce higher overall growth and faster poverty reduction than non-agricultural growth, although the latter can also have large growth effects in some cases. Among sub-sectors within agriculture, staple crops have stronger growth linkages. Decomposition of these effects also reveals that consumption linkages are...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: International Development.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42419

A Value Chain Task Force Approach for Managing Private-Public Partnerships:  Zamiba’s Task Force on Acceleration of Cassava Utilization.
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Chitundu,   Maureen; Droppelmann,   Klaus; Haggblade,   Steven.
Smallholder farmers operate in vertical supply chains. Therefore, an understanding of key opportunities and constraints up through the value chain becomes necessary for sustaining smallholder growth. Yet market analysis is of little value unless key private and public sector stakeholders agree to implement necessary reforms. This paper advocates an approach which marries together value chain analysis with a stakeholder taskforce to ensure that analysis of opportunities and constraints gets translated into actions that will facilitate commercial growth. Using Zambia’s cassava task force as an example, the paper describes the value chain task force method and identifies elements critical to its effective implementation.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Cassava; Value chain; Task force; Zambia; Africa; Crop Production/Industries; Q18.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54480

SUCCESSES IN AFRICAN AGRICULTURE: RESULTS OF AN EXPERT SURVEY
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Gabre-Madhin,   Eleni Z.; Haggblade,   Steven.
Using primary data from a survey of expert opinion, this paper identifies key successes emerging in African agriculture. Among these, major commodity-specific successes identified include breakthroughs in maize breeding across Africa, sustained gains in cassava breeding and successful combat of its disease and pests, control of the rinderpest livestock disease, booming horticultural and flower exports in East and Southern Africa and increased cotton production and exports in West Africa. Using a dynamic analytical framework, the paper attempts to identify key ingredients that appear necessary for building on these individual cases and expanding them into broad-based agricultural growth.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: International Development.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16216

STRATEGIES FOR STIMULATING POVERTY-ALLEVIATING GROWTH IN THE RURAL NONFARM ECONOMY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Haggblade,   Steven; Hazell,   Peter B.R.; Reardon,   Thomas.
The rural nonfarm economy (RNFE) accounts for roughly 25 percent of full-time rural employment and 35-40 percent of rural incomes across the developing world. This diverse collection of seasonal trading, household-based and large-scale agroprocessing, manufacturing and service activities plays a crucial role in sustaining rural populations, in servicing a growing and modern agriculture, and in supplying local consumer goods and services. In areas where landlessness prevails, rural nonfarm activity offers important economic alternatives for the rural poor.   Widespread economic liberalization during the 1990s has opened up rural nonfarm economies as never before -- to new opportunities and to new threats. In some instances, liberalization has benefited...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Community/Rural/Urban Development.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16092

Spatial and Regional Dimensions of Food Security in Zambia
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Haggblade,   Steven; Longabaugh,   Steven; Tschirley,   David L.
Zambia’s population clusters tightly in cities along the north-south line of rail  and in the primarily rural areas of Eastern Province (Figure 1). Staple food consumption and purchases are similarly concentrated in these heavily  populated clusters (Figures 4 and 5). Across the border, several high-density population centers lie close to the Zambian border — in the copperbelt cities of southern DRC, in the highlands of southern Tanzania, in Malawi and in Zimbabwe (Figure 2). This results in sizeable potential food markets for Zambian farmers across the border in southern DRC and, intermittently, in Zimbabwe and Malawi. Zambia’s staple food production and sales likewise cluster spatially in three main areas: along the line of rail, in the large commercial...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Zambia; Food security; Africa; Staple food production; Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Food Security and Poverty; International Relations/Trade; Q18; Q13; Q17.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/58544

Unscrambling Africa: Regional Requirements for Achieving Food Security
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Haggblade,   Steven.
Africa has inherited highly arbitrary political borders that vastly complicate current efforts to accelerate agricultural growth and reduce hunger. Because Africa’s inherited political borders arbitrarily partition agro-ecological zones and natural market sheds, current country borders serve as barriers, hampering agricultural technology transfer, hindering agricultural trade and dampening incentives for farmers and agribusinesses to invest in Africa’s many regional breadbasket zones. Feasible solutions revolve around neutralizing these deleterious effects through regional scientific networks and corridor development programs.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Africa; Food Security; Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Security and Poverty.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/107458

Alternative Approaches for Moderating Food Insecurity and Price Volatility in Zambia.
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Dorosh,   Paul A.; Dradri,   Simon; Haggblade,   Steven.
• Maize production varies widely from year to year, given Zambia’s heavy dependence on rainfed cultivation. Thus consumers face wide swings in availability of their primary food staple. • Typical public responses include increased food aid inflows, government commercial imports and stock releases, and tight controls on private sector trade. While intended to improve domestic supply, these public responses can inadvertently exacerbate price instability and food insecurity for Zambian consumers. • Two key private sector responses – private cross-border maize trade and consumer substitution of alternate food staples (such as cassava) for maize - can also help to moderate food consumption volatility. • Together, private imports and increased cassava...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Zambia; Food Security and Poverty; Q20.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54630

Staple Food Market Sheds in West Africa
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Haggblade,   Steven; Longabaugh,   Steven; Boughton,   Duncan; Dembele,   Niama Nango; Diallo,   Boubacar Cisse; Staatz,   John M.; Tschirley,   David L.
This paper aims to identify the geographic extent of major staple food market sheds in West Africa as well as the major trade corridors that link surplus producing areas with the deficit markets they serve. The method employed combines data on the spatial distribution of rural and urban population, maps of differing food staple zones, crop production data and consumption patterns as described in an array of recent household surveys to map major urban food markets as well as principal surplus production zones. Expert knowledge from traders and other market monitors in the region enable the authors to identify the major commodity flows linking the markets with their major supply zones. These efforts aim to summarize a large volume of information simply and...
Tipo: Working Paper
Palavras-chave: West Africa; Food markets; Marketing.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/121866

Spatial Patterns of Food Staple Production and Marketing in South East Africa: Implications for Trade Policy and Emergency Response
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Haggblade,   Steven; Longabaugh,   Steven; Tschirley,   David L.
This paper aims to develop and test methods for spatial mapping of population, food production, consumption, and marketed quantities in Africa. As an initial, exploratory exercise, the paper examines the spatial pattern of population, food production, consumption, and trade in the three countries of Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique. This largely descriptive initial work will lay the empirical foundations for future analytical work modeling regional trade flows of food staples. By mapping population, food production, and trade flows, the paper aims to help policy makers better understand and anticipate spatial interactions in staple food markets. Through visual presentation of market information, these spatial mapping tools offer prospects for animating an...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Africa; Food Security; Production; Marketing; Food Security and Poverty; International Relations/Trade; Q13.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54553

Potential Impact of the Kwacha Appreciation and Proposed Tax Provisions of the 2006 Budget Act on Zambian Agriculture
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Fynn,   John; Haggblade,   Steven.
The study aims to quantify the impact of the Kwacha appreciation and to project the  broad impact on the agricultural export, domestic production and processing sectors. It explores  the scope for mitigating actions – by farmers, commercial enterprises and government authorities –  that might provide a means of survival of export operations and the retention of income-earning  opportunities by rural communities in the commercial and small scale agricultural sectors. The  study aims to assess the impact of the Kwacha appreciation on the viability of agricultural  enterprises and income earning opportunities in the context of the new tax regulations proposed  in the 2006 budget. It is anticipated that the findings of this study should establish a  foundation...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Zambia Kwacha appreciation; Agricultural export; Domestic  production; Agricultural and Food Policy; International Relations/Trade; Q18.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54475

Maize Market Sheds in Eastern and Southern Africa. Report 1
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Govereh,   Jones; Haggblade,   Steven; Nielson,   Hunter; Tschirley,   David L.
A report prepared by Michigan State University for the World Bank under contract No. 7144132, Strengthening Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa through Trade Liberalization and Regional Integration
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Africa; Markets; Maize; International Relations/Trade; Q13.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55374

Marketing Policy Options for Consumer Price Mitigation Actions in the 2008/09 Maize Marketing Season in Zambia.
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Chapoto,   Antony; Haggblade,   Steven; Shawa,   Julius J.; Jayne,   Thomas S.; Weber,   Michael T.
1) Maize prices are rising rapidly in 2008 and are fast approaching import parity levels. 2) Maize traders, millers and farmers all agree that Zambia will likely require imports by early 2009 in order to avoid domestic maize supply shortages. 3) Official food balance sheets appear to have underestimated the demand for maize this year. They may also have slightly overestimated the size of the 2007/08 maize crop. Hence the slow government recognition of the need for maize imports. 4) As of late September 2008, neither the Government of Zambia (GRZ) nor the private sector have arranged to import maize from South Africa. Trade sources suggest informal imports from Tanzania are helping to relieve the likely shortfall. 5) Zambian policy makers face a delicate...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Zambia; Maize; Marketing; Crop Production/Industries; Q20.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54638

Maize Price Projections for Zambia's 2006/07 Marketing Season
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Haggblade,   Steven.
The coming 2005/06 maize harvest promises to be a good one, certainly better than last  season. Market prices have begun falling, and the question now is how far they are likely to fall.  Government currently has a maize export ban in place. This short note aims to assess the likely  price levels this coming season, with and without an export ban.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Zambia; Maize; Crop Production/Industries; Q18.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54619

Staple food prices in Uganda
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Haggblade,   Steven; Dewina,   Reno.
Prepared for the Comesa policy seminar on “Variation in staple food prices: Causes, consequence, and policy options”, Maputo, Mozambique, 25-26 January 2010 under the African Agricultural Marketing Project (AAMP)
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Uganda; Food security; Food prices; Agricultural and Food Policy; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Security and Poverty; International Development; International Relations/Trade; Q11; Q13; Q17; Q18.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/58553

CONSERVATION FARMING IN ZAMBIA
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Haggblade,   Steven; Tembo,   Gelson.
Declining soil fertility and recurrent drought pose serious challenges to farmers in Africa’s semi-arid regions, where half of all farmland suffers from erosion and nutrient depletion (Cleaver and Schreiber, 1997). In response, farmers and researchers across the continent have experimented with a broad array of soil and water conserving technologies (Reij et al., 1996). This paper describes the development and dissemination of one such technology from Zambia.
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Farm Management.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/16064

Alternative Instruments for Ensuring Food Security and Price Stability in Zambia
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Dorosh,   Paul A.; Dradri,   Simon; Haggblade,   Steven.
Given heavy dependence on rainfed maize production, Zambia must routinely cope with pronounced production and consumption volatility in their primary food staple. Typical policy responses include increased food aid flows, government commercial imports and stock releases, and tight controls on private sector trade. This paper examines recent experience in Zambia, using a simple economic model to assess the likely impact of maize production shocks on the domestic maize price and on staple food consumption under alternative policy regimes. In addition to an array of public policy instruments, the analysis evaluates the quantitative impact of two key private sector responses in moderating food consumption volatility— private cross-border maize trade and...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Food security; Policy; Zambia; Africa; Price; Crop Production/Industries; Food Security and Poverty; Q18.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54488

Unscrambling Africa: Regional Requirements for Achieving Food Security
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Haggblade,   Steven.
Africa has inherited highly arbitrary political borders that vastly complicate current efforts to accelerate agricultural growth and reduce hunger. Because Africa’s inherited political borders arbitrarily partition agro-ecological zones and natural market sheds, current country borders serve as barriers, hampering agricultural technology transfer, hindering agricultural trade and dampening incentives for farmers and agribusinesses to invest in Africa’s many regional breadbasket zones. Feasible solutions revolve around neutralizing these deleterious effects through regional scientific networks and regional corridor development programs.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Africa; Food Security; Markets; Technology transfer; Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Crop Production/Industries; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; International Development; Marketing; R12; Q18.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/97030

Cassava as drought insurance: Food security implications of cassava trials in Central Zambia
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Barratt,   N.; Chitundu,   D.; Dover,   O.; Elsinga,   J.; Eriksson,   S.; Guma,   L.; Haggblade,   M.; Haggblade,   Steven; Henn,   T.O.; Locke,   F.R.; O'Donnell,   C.; Smith,   C.; Stevens,   T.
Wide, weather-induced fluctuations in maize production lead to recurrent food shortages in Zambia's maize consuming regions, while the cassava-growing regions of the north enjoy stable food production, even in drought years.  Noting this striking correlation between drought vulnerability and the prevalence of maize as a staple food, a growing array of agencies in Zambia has begun introducing highly productive new cassava varieties, developed in the north, to more central and southerly regions in an effort to provide low-cost food security during drought years.  Yet agroecological conditions in these drought-prone regions differ significantly from the northern research stations where Zambian scientists developed the new cassava varieties.  So it is not...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/31729

Factors Affecting Poverty Dynamics in Rural Zambia.
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Chapoto,   Antony; Banda,   Diana J.; Haggblade,   Steven; Hamukwala,   Priscilla.
Rural poverty rates in Zambia have remained very high, at 80%, over the past decade and a half, whilst urban poverty rates have declined, from 49% in 1991 to 34% in 2006. Redressing this high rural poverty rate remains a government priority in the National Development Programs. However, solutions have proven elusive. Solid empirically based information on dynamics that have improved the welfare of small-scale farm households in Zambia, combined with an agenda for disseminating this information in public discourse, offer prospects for generating a more transparent and pro-poor policy orientation. Using longitudinal data collected from 4,286 households which participated in three nationwide surveys conducted over seven years, in 2001, 2004, and 2008, we...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Poverty Dynamics; Zambia; Rural poverty; Africa; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Security and Poverty.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/109888

Identification of Key Analytical Agenda Related to CAADP Pillars 2 and 3
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Tschirley,   David L.; Haggblade,   Steven.
Prepared by Food Security Group, Michigan State University,
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Agriculture; Africa; Caadp; Food Security and Poverty; Q11.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/57447

Staple food prices in Zambia
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Chapoto,   Antony; Govereh,   Jones; Haggblade,   Steven; Jayne,   Thomas S.
Prepared for the COMESA policy seminar on “Variation in staple food prices: Causes, consequence, and policy options”, Maputo, Mozambique, 25-26 January 2010 under the Comesa-MSU-IFPRI African Agricultural Marketing Project (AAMP)
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Zambia; Food security; Food prices; Agricultural and Food Policy; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Security and Poverty; International Development; International Relations/Trade; Q11; Q13; Q18.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/58556

Cassava Commercialization in Mozambique
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Donovan,   Cynthia; Haggblade,   Steven; Salegua,   Venancio Alexandre; Cuambe,   Constantino; Mudema,   Joao; Tomo,   Alda.
Cassava supplies roughly 30% of all calories consumed in Mozambique, making it the country’s most important food security crop. Over the past several decades, growing urbanization and shifting demand patterns have led to growing opportunities for cassava processing and commercialization. This paper examines the commercial dynamics in Mozambique’s cassava value chain as well as the food security implications of growing cassava commercialization.
Tipo: Technical Report
Palavras-chave: Mozambique; Cassava; Food Security and Poverty.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/120744

Subsector Analysis: Its Nature, Conduct and Potential Distribution to Small Enterprise Development
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Boomgard,   James J.; Davies,   Stephen P.; Haggblade,   Steven; Mead,   Donald C.
This paper is concerned with the conduct of meaningful policy and project relevant  research on small enterprise development. It responds to a growing demand for operationally  useful small enterprise research, a demand which has surged over the past ten years in the wake  of increasing concern with equity issues coupled with recent evidence on small enterprise  efficiency.
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Small enterprise; Community/Rural/Urban Development; International Development; Downloads December 2008-July 2009: 18; Q18.
Ano: 1986
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54745