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    Working-age adult mortality, orphan status, and child schooling in rural Zambia

    AgEcon Search, 2011
    Zambia has been facing the challenge of rising HIV prevalence and the possibility of losing gains in education sector, where households suffering the death of a working-age (WA) adult may pull their children out of school due to family labour shortages. This paper measures the impact of WA adult mortality and morbidity on primary school attendance and school advancement in Zambia.
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    Report from a fact finding mission: Women, Gender and Conservation Agriculture in Zambia

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011
    In December 2010 a gender team from Norad undertook a study trip to Zambia in order to learn about women, gender and conservation agriculture (CA). CA is central in climate adaptation. The report summarises general findings and recommendations from the study tour. The authors come to the conclusion that CA has many benefits for women.
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    Banking for the future: Savings, security and seeds. A short study of community seed banks in Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Honduras, India, Nepal, Thailand, Zambia and Zimbabwe

    Development Fund, Norway, 2011
    The global seed market has grown considerably the last decades into a multibillion dollar industry, largely due to more farmers purchasing seeds. Despite the growth in the commercial seed sector, the majority of the farmers in the developing world still depend on the harvest season to collect seeds.
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    The effects of the food reserve agency on maize market prices in Zambia

    AgEcon Search, 2011
    The Food Reserve Agency (FRA) is a major player in the Zambian maize market and substantial public sector resources are devoted to its activities. This policy synthesis estimates the effects of the Zambia FRA’s activities on maize market prices in the country.
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    Southern voices on climate policy choices: analysis of and lessons learned from civil society advocacy on climate change

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2012
    Since the beginning of international climate change negotiations, civil society has worked alongside governments in shaping global agreements and keeping an eye on the implementation (and sometimes the lack of implementation) of these agreements. This report is the first joint product of the Southern Voices capacity building programme.
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    Climate risk and vulnerability: a handbook for southern Africa

    Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, 2011
    This handbook explores how climate change and variability affect southern Africa. By analysing a number of case studies, the handbook presents how climate has changed in the region, the impact of climate change to key sectors and ways to deal with climate-related challenges.
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    Living on a Spike

    Oxfam, 2011
    The human face of global food price rises is often missing amongst the abstract discussions of macro-economic trends and global food price indices. In order to understand the impact of the rise in global food prices through much of 2010 and into early 2011, Oxfam and research partners from the Institute of Development Studies spoke to people effected in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kenya, and Zambia.
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    Changing Patterns of Access to Education in Anglophone and Francophone Countries in Sub Saharan Africa: Is Education for All Pro-Poor?

    Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity, 2011
    This paper explores patterns of growth in participation in six Anglophone and seven Francophone countries in SSA with Universal Primary Education programmes. The results show that progress has been patchy and sometimes disappointing. Access remains strongly associated with household wealth despite commitments to pro-poor policies.
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    How HIV/AIDS scale-up has impacted on non- HIV priority services in Zambia

    BMC Public Health, 2010
    Much of the debate as to whether or not the scaling up of HIV service delivery in Africa benefits non-HIV priority services has focused on the use of nationally aggregated data. This paper analyses and presents routine health facility record data to show trend correlations across priority services.
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    Information and Communication Technologies and Continuing Medical Education in East and Southern Africa

    International Institute for Communication and Development, 2003
    This report presents some of the background materials prepare for the meeting held in April 2003 and coorganised jointly by IICD, Cordaid and CEDHA jto explore ways in which ICTs can be used to develop and deliver continuing medical education to rural healthcare workers in Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.

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