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Changing agro-food systems: The impact of big agro-investors on food rights: Case studies in Mozambique and Zambia
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2016)
This book presents case studies that offer some insights into
the rapid process of change underway in African agro-food
systems, and in Southern Africa in particular, within the
context of land-based and agricultural ...
Evidence from three models of land and agricultural commercialisation: Impacts on local livelihoods in Zambia
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2016)
Zambia needs to undergo structural transformation triggered by increased agricultural and rural labour productivity if it is to achieve improved growth and broad-based poverty reduction. The current experience, however, ...
Changing agro-food systems: The impact of big agro-investors on food rights. Case studies in Mozambique and Zambia
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2016)
This book presents case studies on changing agro-food systems in Southern Africa within the context of large-scale land-based and agri-business investments. By capturing the testimonies of local people in rural settings, ...
Evidence from three models of land and agricultural commercialization: Impacts on local livelihoods in Zambia
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2016)
The approach favoured by most donors is to stimulate growth in smallholder agriculture by a variety of interventions ranging from production technology to market development. Some, however, contend that agricultural ...
Lusaka’s local food geographies: A gendered reading of everyday food insecurity in Mtendere, Lusaka
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2016-08)
Little is known about how individual abilities and food security determinants - at the scale of everyday
life - connect to formal and informal value chains, and broader urban structural systems in which daily
processes ...