Download or read book Strategies for Increased Rural Incomes and Food Security in Isolated Areas of Zambia written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Strategies for Increased Rural Incomes and Food Security in Isolated Areas of Zambia written by University of Zambia. School of Agricultural Sciences and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Agricultural Policies for Poverty Reduction A Synthesis written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book synthesizes the findings of a longer work which sets out a strategy for raising rural incomes.

Download or read book Analysing Household Food Insecurity and Livelihood Strategies in Rural Areas of Zambia written by Patrick Mungaila and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rural Food Security in Zambia written by Lovejoy Mulambo Malambo and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020 written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updates for many countries have made it possible to estimate hunger in the world with greater accuracy this year. In particular, newly accessible data enabled the revision of the entire series of undernourishment estimates for China back to 2000, resulting in a substantial downward shift of the series of the number of undernourished in the world. Nevertheless, the revision confirms the trend reported in past editions: the number of people affected by hunger globally has been slowly on the rise since 2014. The report also shows that the burden of malnutrition in all its forms continues to be a challenge. There has been some progress for child stunting, low birthweight and exclusive breastfeeding, but at a pace that is still too slow. Childhood overweight is not improving and adult obesity is on the rise in all regions. The report complements the usual assessment of food security and nutrition with projections of what the world may look like in 2030, if trends of the last decade continue. Projections show that the world is not on track to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030 and, despite some progress, most indicators are also not on track to meet global nutrition targets. The food security and nutritional status of the most vulnerable population groups is likely to deteriorate further due to the health and socio economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The report puts a spotlight on diet quality as a critical link between food security and nutrition. Meeting SDG 2 targets will only be possible if people have enough food to eat and if what they are eating is nutritious and affordable. The report also introduces new analysis of the cost and affordability of healthy diets around the world, by region and in different development contexts. It presents valuations of the health and climate-change costs associated with current food consumption patterns, as well as the potential cost savings if food consumption patterns were to shift towards healthy diets that include sustainability considerations. The report then concludes with a discussion of the policies and strategies to transform food systems to ensure affordable healthy diets, as part of the required efforts to end both hunger and all forms of malnutrition.

Download or read book Participatory Approach to Sustainable Village Development PASViD written by Zambia. Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Farming Systems and Poverty written by John A. Dixon and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A joint FAO and World Bank study which shows how the farming systems approach can be used to identify priorities for the reduction of hunger and poverty in the main farming systems of the six major developing regions of the world.

Download or read book Action Plan to Improve Statistics for Food Security Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development in Africa written by Zambia. Ministry of National Development Planning and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Assessing the Effectiveness of Farmer Input Support Programme on Rural Poverty and Household Food Security Among Small Scale Farmers written by Nicholas Manda and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zambia, like any other developing country is faced with the problem of reducing high rural poverty and household food insecurity. Despite the country sustaining a real economic growth of more than 5% since the year 2005, the majority of Zambians still live in poverty as economic growth has not resulted in uplifting the well-being of the poor. In addition, the exposition of the population to economic reforms market economic liberalisation facilitated by the SAP and unfavourable weather conditions (droughts) has increased peoples vulnerability to poverty. The severity of poverty is more pronounced in rural areas than urban areas thereby necessitating the need to intervene through farmer input support programme to bring the situation under control. The main objective of the dissertation was to assess the effectiveness of FISP on rural poverty reduction through raising income and its effect on household food security. To achieve the above objective, the paper was guided by two specific objectives; (i) to assess the impact of FISP on rural poverty by increasing income of the target population and (ii) to examine the extent to which FISP contributes to household food security on the targeted small-scale farmers in Zambia. Further, the paper tested two hypotheses: (i) FISP has no impact on raising small-scale farmers income and hence rural poverty reduction on the target population and (ii) FISP has a positive impact on household and national food security. The papers main research problem was that despite the government had been spending huge sums of money on FISP with a view to reduce poverty, the high incidence of rural poverty raises questions about the effectiveness of the program to address the problem. The paper combined both desk-top and quantitative studies in the methodological approach. Literature from international development organisations on FISP and a wide range of journals, research papers and articles have been used to guide the discussion, analysis, and drawing of conclusions and recommendations. Further, a field data-set collected by IAPRI in conjunction with the Central Statistical Office on FISP was used to test the above hypotheses. Despite the government implementing various input support programmes (FCP, FISP, FSP and FSPP) to empower small-scale farmers in terms of access to income and improve household food security, the programmes have been marred with a lot of operational challenges. There has been undercoverage of the poor and leakage of the programme to the non-poor. The causes of targeting errors have been partly due to entry requirements (cooperative membership fees, access xii to land) which have acted as an exclusion mechanism for the poor farmers who cannot afford to pay membership fees. In addition, acquisition of entitlements ability to cultivate between 0.5 ha and 5ha to qualify for participation has excluded the poorest of the poor who cannot meet the entitlement requirements. Targeting efficiency has been further weakened by the requirement to pay cash upfront payment before collecting fertiliser which has disadvantaged the genuinely poor who cannot meet the subsidy input cost. Leakage (type II error) has been necessitated by the government assumption that larger farmers are efficient in fertiliser usage and hence maize production than smaller farmers. This has led to disproportionate allocation of fertiliser in favour of larger farmers who reap the benefits of the programme. The paper has also highlighted that FISP has contributed to increase in maize production in Zambia resulting in the country achieving national food self-sufficiency. However, the increase in maize production has not translated into poverty reduction. Rural poverty has remained high at 77.8% despite implementing the programme for more than a decade. The high rural poverty incidence is explained by the fact that increase in maize production is achieved by the less poor with more land, asset base and income On average they sell 1.7 to 15.1 tons of maize to FRA as compared to 135kg sold by small farmers cultivating less than 2 ha of land. In addition, larger farmers receive more subsidised inputs than poor farmers thereby empowering the non-target population of the programme. Political interference has further led to arbitrariness in the selection of programme participants resulting in leakage of fertiliser to commercial outlet where it is sold. Late delivery of inputs has also led to reduction in the yield per hectare as it reduces the maize response rate to fertiliser - fertiliser improves crop performance when applied at the recommended time. The paper concludes that FISP has no impact on raising the income of the target population and thus on rural poverty reduction. However, FISP has a positive impact on national and household food security though undernourishment and food inadequacy has been rising since 2002. The paper recommends the following; (i) government should implement narrow targeting to concentrate the benefits of the program on the poor, (ii) government should put up a deliberate land empowerment policy through resettlement scheme, (iii) government should promote small-scale irrigation to fight seasonal food insecurity and (iv) Ministry of Agriculture should regulate cooperatives and ensures that the membership fees they change are affordable by the poor.

Download or read book The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018 written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New evidence this year corroborates the rise in world hunger observed in this report last year, sending a warning that more action is needed if we aspire to end world hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. Updated estimates show the number of people who suffer from hunger has been growing over the past three years, returning to prevailing levels from almost a decade ago. Although progress continues to be made in reducing child stunting, over 22 percent of children under five years of age are still affected. Other forms of malnutrition are also growing: adult obesity continues to increase in countries irrespective of their income levels, and many countries are coping with multiple forms of malnutrition at the same time – overweight and obesity, as well as anaemia in women, and child stunting and wasting.

Download or read book Merging GIS RS and Socio environmental Analytical Methods in the Study of Land use Change written by Edward G. Quinby and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poverty and Hunger written by World Bank and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food security means access by all people at all times to enough food for an active and healthy life. Available data suggest that more than 700 million people in the developing world lack the food necessary for such a life. No problem of underdevelopment may be more serious or have such important implications for the long-term growth of low-income countries. This report outlines the nature and extent of food security problems in developing countries, explores the policy options available to these countries in addressing these problems, and indicates what international institutions such as the World Bank can and should do to help countries solve their food security problems. It suggests ways to achieve the desired goal in cost-effective ways. It also identifies policies that waste economic resources and fail to reach the target groups. (BZ)

Download or read book Agricultural policy reforms and regional market integration in Malawi Zambia and Zimbabwe written by Alberto Valdés and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General policy environment; Current status of and reform proposals for agriculture; Effects of domestic policy reforms on food security; Potential for intraregional trade.

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Download or read book Development Strategies and Food and Nutrition Security in Africa written by Heidhues, Franz and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2004 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bibliography p. 41-48.