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Library Resource

A Strategic Agricultural Sector and Food Security Diagnostic for Myanmar

Reports & Research
December, 2013
Myanmar
Land & Food Security
agriculture
agricultural land management
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
farmers
farming systems
food security
land policies
land law

ABSTRACTED FROM THE INTRODUCTION: This report provides a strategic assessment of the key issues, opportunities, constraints and choices facing Myanmar’s agricultural sector. Discussion focuses on pathways that will permit agriculture to contribute meaningfully to broad-based improvements in purchasing power and food security for the country’s many landless and vulnerable households. In doing so, it aims to assist public and private stakeholders who will be making the key investment and policy decisions governing future agricultural and food security trajectories in Myanmar.

Library Resource

Women and Land in Zambia

A Case Study of Small-Scale Farmers in Chenena Village, Chibombo District, Central Zambia

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2002
Zambia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
community land rights
customary land rights
land rights

The paper shows that most women in Zambia and especially in the study area suffer from insecurity in land since they do not have secure title to land under customary tenure. The results from the research which was carried out using semi structured interviews with 34 female farmers show that the majority of women farmers (62%) were not allocated land directly by headmen but got land through a male contact.

Project

Food Security Research Program: Zambia

Donors: 
United States Agency for International Development
Implementing organizations: 
Michigan State University
Geographical focus: 
Zambia

Agricultural productivity of most staple crops has been stagnant, in part due to Government of the Republic of Zambia’s (GRZ) agriculture policies that exacerbate the challenges and focus on maize-centric subsides to the exclusion and detriment of other crops. The Food Security Research Project (FSRP) focuses on sustainable agricultural policy reform and capacity building. FSRP builds capacity among agricultural sector planners to achieve improved policy making through applied agricultural economic research, policy analysis, outreach, and dialogue.

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