Access to Land, and Poverty Reduction in Rural Zambia: Connecting the Policy Issues

Thomas S. Jayne (), Ballard Zulu, Gear Kajoba and Michael T. Weber ()

International Development Collaborative Working Papers from Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University

Abstract: It might be considered unlikely that inadequate access to land would be one of the major causes of rural poverty in Zambia. However, evidence presented in this paper shows that economically viable arable land is not in great abundance in Zambia after considering the current situation with respect to access to road infrastructure and access to services and markets. In fact, access to land is already a major problem for large segments of the rural population in Zambia. Moreover, depending of future land allocation policy, access to good quality land with a market potential may become increasingly beyond the reach of many small-scale farm households, making it more difficult to achieve a smallholder-led, pro-poor agricultural development trajectory.

Keywords: AGRICULTURE; ZAMBIA; LAND; POVERTY (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2008-11

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