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Gender and Livelihoods in Commercial Sugarcane Production: A Case Study of Contract Farming in Magobbo, Zambia

This paper presents a case study of farmers’ recent transition from growing traditional crops to cultivating sugarcane under a...

Patterns of Engagement with Youth Savings Groups in Four African Countries

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This report details findings of research undertaken under the Banking on Change Academic Partnership, which was established in 2014 between the Banking on Change (BoC) programme (a partnership of Plan UK, CARE International UK and Barclays Bank) and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS).

Agricultural Input Subsidies in Sub-Saharan Africa

Published by: IDS

Development theory has built on the historic experience of rich countries to identify a foundational role for agricultural growth in national economic development.

Zambia: Year 3 Findings from the Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility Study

Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility: Zambia Year 2 Country Report

Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility: Zambia Year 1 Findings

Implications of a Major Increase in Aid to Africa: The Case of Zambia

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

If all the international debt Africa owes were cancelled today and if aid trebled instantly, would there be an immediate positive impact...

Analysing the Effectiveness of Sector Support: Primary Education in Uganda and Zambia

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Since the mid-1990s, development agencies, including the Netherlands, started to move from project aid towards sector and general budget...

Can a Developing Country Support the Welfare Needs of Children Affected by AIDS? Considering the Issues in Zambia

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

In this debate, I am the Grinch. I argue that developing countries (especially those with highprevalence generalised AIDS epidemics)...

Crime and Social Cohesion in the Time of Crisis: Early Evidence of Wider Impacts of Food, Fuel and Financial Shocks

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Economic crises have a series of impacts on society and security, depending on their severity, and on people's capacities to cope with...