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Improving Food Security in Africa: Highlights of 25 Years of Research, Capacity-Building, and Outreach.

Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009

agricultural production and marketing, and related problems of poor health and absence of clean water. Assuring adequate food …

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Urban Consumption Patterns of Livestock Products in Zambia and Implications for Policy

Hichaambwa, Munguzwe - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2012

Rapid urbanization in Zambia means that increasingly heavy demands are being placed on urban food marketing systems …

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Where Do Urban Households in Zambia Buy their Livestock Products?

Hichaambwa, Munguzwe - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource …

Livestock products and fish form an important component of urban consumers’ diet accounting for about one third of the total monthly budgetary expenditure on food. The budgetary share of livestock products increases with affluence or household income while the opposite is true for fish; 2) The...

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Factors Contributing to Zambia's 2010 Maize Bumper Harvest

Burke, William J.; Jayne, Thomas S.; Chapoto, Antony - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2010

Zambia’s maize crop grew by roughly 48% between the 2009 and 2010 harvests, leading to the largest crop recorded in recent history. The 2009 maize harvest was also very good, making the 48% rise in 2010 even more remarkable. The forces driving that increase, however, remain widely debated....

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What is the Scope for Increased Fertilizer Use in Kenya?

Sheahan, Megan; Black, Roy; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2012

Despite upward trends in fertilizer application rates on maize fields over the last twenty years, there remains a perception in Kenya that fertilizer use is not expanding quickly enough and that application rates are not high enough to reverse the country’s growing national food deficit. In...

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Determinants of Crop Income in Rural Mozambique, 2002-2005.

Mather, David - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2012

Crop income is the predominant source of income for most rural Mozambican households, accounting for 73% of rural household income on average in 2002, and greater than 80% of the total income of the poorest 40% of rural households. While the Government of Mozambique recognizes the need to...

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Population and Sustainability: Understanding Population, Environment, and Development Linkages

Clay, Daniel C.; Reardon, Thomas - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 1998

The triple challenge of rapid population growth, declining agricultural productivity, and natural resource degradation are not isolated from one another; they are intimately related. However, strategic planning and development programming tend to focus on individual sectors such as the...

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Cassava Commercialization in Malawi

Kambewa, Emma - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2010

Malawi continues to rely on maize for household food security. Policies to enhance food security continue to target maize production. Traditionally production and use of cassava was localized in lakeshore areas until the past two decades when maize production was increasingly affected by...

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Are Staple Foods Becoming More Expensive For Urban Consumers In Eastern And Southern Africa? Trends in Food Prices, Marketing Margins, and Wage Rates in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique,...

Mason, Nicole M.; Jayne, Thomas S.; Donovan, Cynthia; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009

Africa. This study investigates patterns in staple food prices, wage rates, and marketing margins for urban consumers in … 2008/09 marketing season were still roughly double their levels of the mid-1990s. The national minimum wage in Mozambique …/07 marketing seasons, respectively. During the 2008/09 marketing season, Maputo minimum wage earners’ rice and wheat flour …

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Staple Food Consumption Patterns in Urban Zambia: Results from the 2007/2008 Urban Consumption Survey

Mason, Nicole M.; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009

and improved urban food marketing system performance in Zambia will need to take into consideration the demand patterns of … priorities to improve the performance of the food marketing system. …

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