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| "New Agriculture" and Implications for information development and diffusion: Perspectives from Zambia |
| 16 November 2007 |
| Jones Govereh, Mike Weber |
Acknowledgements: FANRPAN acknowledges the FARA website as the source of this report: http://farastaff.blogspot.com/2007/11/world-aginfo-workshop-in-zambia.html |
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New Agriculture – Responding to Markets Means We Need Better Information About African Urban Food Demand
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More than 50% of Africa’s population will be urban by 2015.
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2000: 10 farm households feed 7 non-farm households
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2020: 10 farm households feed 16 non-farm households
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Upshot: urban demand for food is rising rapidly
New Agriculture - Policy Information Implications
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Many "knowledge gaps" about improving smallholder agriculture are systemic challenges
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Access to roads and water
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Access to land
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Access to markets
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Changing urban consumption patterns
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Overcoming these knowledge gaps to help develop policies and programs that can help smallholder farmers
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