Items tagged:
Zambia
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Harnessing the potential of Zambia’s informal food sector
A new report on informal food markets in Zambia explores how integrating these into urban policy planning could help Zambia achieve 'zero hunger'.
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Assessing governance at protected and conserved areas (GAPA)
IIED is developing a multi-stakeholder-led methodology for assessing the quality of governance at protected areas and other conserved areas.
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Attracting Zambia's youth to agriculture: it's about time
Zambia's vibrant youth are crucial to developing a prosperous agricultural sector. This means shaking off outdated perceptions and providing young people with the right incentives
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Nourishing diversity in our food systems
Although our food systems seemingly deliver impressive abundance and variety, we are losing crucial agricultural biodiversity and our increasingly homogenised diets are leading to disease and obesity. Seth Cook sets out five steps for better, more diverse food systems
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Promoting diversity on the farm – and the plate
As a recent meeting in Lusaka showed, Food Change Labs offer an innovative path towards greater diversity on the farm and on the plate in Zambia
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Fall army worm maize attack: a case for diversity from farm to fork
As the Zambian government scales up efforts to control an army worm outbreak that is damaging maize crops across the country, William Chilufya wonders if the infestation will encourage a policy shift away from mono-cropping maize
