Agricultural policy reform in Zambia

Agriculture and the Policy Environment

“…At the same time, there was a concern with increasing food production to ensure self-sufficiency for a rapidly growing population. This concern was largely politically motivated: to maintain the provision of cheap food for the growing, politically powerful urban population and to decrease past dependence upon non-Zambian farmers and imports from the Whiteruled south [Kean and Wood, 1992].…”