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| Jayne, Thomas S.; Chapoto, Antony; Minde, Isaac J.; Donovan, Cynthia. |
| The dramatic rise in world food prices since 2007 has commanded the world’s attention. However, in recent months, world food prices have fallen almost as rapidly as they had risen in late 2007 and early 2008, yet as is demonstrated in this report, domestic food price levels in many eastern and southern African markets are not closely tracking world prices. Fertilizer prices remain at unprecedentedly high levels and may have a critical influence on future food production levels in the region. Against this backdrop, there is an urgent need for information about how the current food situation is unfolding in the region, the immediate policy response options, and the longer-term challenges and opportunities. This study has three objectives: 1) to examine the... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Agriculture; Africa; Food security; Price; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Q11. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54556 |
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| 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 |
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| Mather, David; Donovan, Cynthia; Jayne, Thomas S.; Weber, Michael T.; Chapoto, Antony; Mazhangara, Edward; Mghenyi, Elliot W.; Bailey, Linda; Yoo, Kyeongwon; Yamano, Takashi. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Consumer/Household Economics; Downloads November 2008 - July 2007: 6. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11322 |
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| Chapoto, Antony; Jayne, Thomas S.. |
| There is continuing debate in east and southern Africa about the effects of food market reform on the welfare of small-scale farmers and low-income consumers. At the center of this debate is the perception that food prices have become more unstable in countries that have liberalized their staple food markets, thereby exacerbating the plight of poor consumers and farmers. This perception has led many governments in the region to shun an open maize borders policy and pursue a variety of food marketing and trade policy tools to stabilize food prices. Unfortunately, there remains a dearth of empirical evidence on the effects of alternative food marketing and trade policies, including that of liberalization, on price stability and predictability. Assessments of... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Africa; Food security; Maize; Trade; Markets; Food Security and Poverty; International Relations/Trade; Marketing; Q13. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56798 |
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| Chapoto, Antony; Jayne, Thomas S.. |
| Using comprehensive rural farm household longitudinal data from Zambia, this paper measures the impacts of prime-age (PA) adult morbidity and mortality on crop production and cropping patterns, household size, livestock and non-farm income. The paper adopts and extends the counterfactual (difference-in-difference) approach by controlling for initial (pre-death) household conditions that may influence the severity of the impacts of adult mortality. In particular, the study controls for initial poverty status, landholding size, effective dependency ratios, and the gender and position of the deceased person. Moreover, the possibility that PA death in the household is endogenous is taken into account by conceptualizing the measurement of effects of... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; HIV/AIDS; Prime-age mortality; Endogeneity; Rural livelihoods; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; Q18. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54473 |
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| Chapoto, Antony; Jayne, Thomas S.; Mason, Nicole M.. |
| 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. Widows whose family has kinship ties to the village authorities are less likely to face a severe decline in landholding size after the death of their husbands. 6. Widows in patrilineal and matrilineal villages are equally likely to lose their... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Zambia; HIV/AIDS; Land; Health Economics and Policy; Land Economics/Use; Q20. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54628 |
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| Govereh, Jones; Jayne, Thomas S.; Chapoto, Antony. |
| The economic reforms in maize marketing and trade policies implemented during the 1990s have been highly controversial, and there remains a lack of solid empirical investigation on the impacts of these reforms on national food security, price stability and rural income growth. This study aims to provide a detailed evidence-based analysis of the impacts of maize marketing and trade policies on smallholder agricultural production growth, access to food by consumers, and other important national policy objectives. These insights from Zambia can hopefully move forward the continuing debate in the region on how maize marketing and trade policies should be structured in the future. |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Policy; Zambia; Africa; Maize; Trade; Crop Production/Industries; Marketing; Q18. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54492 |
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| Chapoto, Antony; Jayne, Thomas S.. |
| As events in the 2008/09 season have amply demonstrated, instability in staple food market remains a major problem in Zambia. A rise in world food price levels and instability, which is projected to occur in the near future according to several international institutes, will make it all more important for developing countries to consider the strengths and weaknesses of alternative approaches for buffering their domestic food systems from potential high volatility in world markets. These findings suggest that promoting more “rules based” approaches to... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Zambia; Maize; Trade; Price; Crop Production/Industries; Marketing; Q11. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54499 |
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| Simasiku, Phyllis; Chapoto, Antony; Richardson, Robert B.; Sichilongo, Mwape; Tembo, Gelson; Weber, Michael T.; Zulu, Alimakio. |
| Natural resource use, including land, and rural population location is an important topic for Zambia's development strategy. Among other efforts, the Government of Zambia (GRZ) has designated 22% of total land area, as Game Management Areas (GMAs) for human settlements and wildlife conservation. Other GRZ programmes seek to improve food security and agricultural productivity, including the use and improvement of conservation farming techniques. GRZ is currently reviewing policies in the agricultural, forestry, fisheries, wildlife and land sectors. Research in these fields has much to contribute to effective management of MAs, increased agricultural productivity and improved welfare, especially for the rural population. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Zambia; Africa; Natural resources management; GMA; Wildlife management policies; Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy; Food Security and Poverty; International Development; Q34. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/58518 |
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| Tembo, Gelson; Chapoto, Antony; Jayne, Thomas S.; Weber, Michael T.. |
| The availability, access and affordability of food is a highly politicized issue throughout the world. In much of southern Africa, there is a widespread view that governments are responsible for ensuring that their populations have reliable access to food. Zambia, like most countries in Southern Africa, is vigorously pursuing continued direct public sector involvement and protectionist measures in the maize marketing sector. Since 1995, the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) and more recently, subsidies through the Fertilizer Support Program (FSP), have been the major instruments of government policy. While in some respects current operations undertaken by the government are similar to those adopted at independence, there are some noteworthy changes. Specifically,... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Zambia; Food security; Agriculture; Market development; Marketing; Q13. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54501 |
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| Mather, David; Donovan, Cynthia; Jayne, Thomas S.; Weber, Michael T.; Chapoto, Antony; Mazhangara, Edward; Bailey, Linda; Yoo, Kyeongwon; Yamano, Takashi; Mghenyi, Elliot W.. |
| This paper summarizes and synthesizes across the results of a set of country studies on the effects of prime-age adult mortality on rural households in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, and Zambia. Each study is based on large representative rural household surveys. These findings have implications for the design of efforts to mitigate some of the most important effects of rural adult mortality, and for key development policies and priorities. |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: HIV/AIDS; Sub-Saharan Africa; Mortality; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Health Economics and Policy; Downloads July 2008 - July 2009: 21; I11. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54571 |
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| Chapoto, Antony; Jayne, Thomas S.; Mason, Nicole M.. |
| 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. Increased government commitment to ensure security of widows’ access to land is another approach, but initial evaluations of government efforts provide mixed evidence (see Izumi, 2006). Government decrees appear to have little... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Policy; HIV/AIDS; Land; Zambia.; Africa; Health Economics and Policy; Land Economics/Use; Q18. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54484 |
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| Jayne, Thomas S.; Yamano, Takashi; Weber, Michael T.; Tschirley, David L.; Benfica, Rui M.S.; Neven, David; Chapoto, Antony; Zulu, Ballard. |
| This paper provides a micro-level foundation for discussions of income and asset allocation within the smallholder sector in Eastern and Southern Africa, and explores the implications of these findings for rural growth and poverty alleviation strategies in the region. Results are drawn from nationally-representative household surveys in five countries between 1990 and 2000: Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Mozambique, and Zambia. The paper shows that farm sizes in most of Africa are declining over time; that farm sizes are declining at a faster rate for households at the low end of the land size distribution; that Gini coefficient measures indicate that farm sizes within the small-farm sectors are generally more inequitably distributed than in Asia and Latin... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty; Land Economics/Use; Downloads July 2008-July 2009: 15. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/19692 |
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| Mason, Nicole M.; Chapoto, Antony; Jayne, Thomas S.; Myers, Robert J.. |
| 1. Consistent with the New Variant Famine (NVF) hypothesis, the negative impact of drought on crop output and output per hectare is further exacerbated where HIV prevalence rates are relatively high, particularly in the low- and medium rainfall zones of the country (agro-ecological regions I and II). 2. HIV prevalence rates and AIDS-related mortality rates in Zambia are highest in the lowest rainfall and most drought-prone zone of the country (agro-ecological region I). 3. Only for districts in agro-ecological region I do we find evidence of a robust negative effect of HIV/AIDS on agrarian livelihood indicators. Relatively stable food production zones and/or areas with relatively low HIV prevalence rates appear to be less vulnerable to the adverse effects... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Zambia; HIV/AIDS; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; Q20. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54629 |
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