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            <title>Zambia’s Economic Overview and the Agricultural Sector</title>
            <description>Hambulo Ngoma. Agri Benchmark Cash Crop Training Workshop. Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy (BFAP). Pretoria, South Africa. 14-16 May, 2013.
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            <title>Training, Quantitative Methods</title>
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            <title>Factors Influencing Livestock Marketing Dynamics in Zambia</title>
            <description>Mary Lubungu. 2012 Joint Annual Meeting of Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. Washington State Convention Center. Seattle. 12-14 August 2012.</description>
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            <title>PRI/FSRP’s Work Related to Climate Change and Climate Smart Agriculture in Zambia</title>
            <description>Hambulo Ngoma and Rhoda M. Mukuka. USAID partners meeting held in Chipata. March 19, 2013</description>
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            <title>The Impact of Hybrid Maize on Smallholder Livelihoods in Zambia:Findings of a Household Survey in Katete, Mkushi, and Sinazongwe Districts</title>
            <description>Petan Hamazakaza, Melinda Smale, and Helen Kasalu. IAPRI Working Paper 73. April 2013.</description>
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            <title>Hunger for Money: Maize, Food-Insecurity, and Identity Formation Within Polygynous Households in Rural Southern Zambia.</title>
            <description>Sitko, N. J. (2012). Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, 15(3), 415-435.</description>
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            <title>‘My hunger has brought business’:‘efficiency’ and the de-moralizing logic of maize distribution in an era of market liberalization.</title>
            <description>Sitko, N. J. (2013).  The Journal of Peasant Studies, 40(2), 413-430.</description>
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            <title>Impacts of Seed Subsidies on Poverty and Inequality Among Smallholder Maize Growers In Zambia.</title>
            <description>Nicole Mason and Melinda Smale. Cornell University Institute for African Development. Spring Symposium on Growth, Poverty, and Inequality: Confronting the Challenges for a Better Life for All in Africa. 20 April 2013</description>
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            <title>Emergent Farmer Growth Trajectories in Zambia: Land Accumulation and Its Implications for Poverty Reduction.</title>
            <description>Nicholas Sitko, T.S. Jayne, and Munguzwe Hichaambwa. Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty. Washington, DC. April 8-11, 2013.</description>
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            <title>Presentations from High Level Government Policy Meeting. Chaminuka Lodge. Lusaka</title>
            <description>April 13, 2013</description>
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            <title>Agriculture Policy As A Retrospective Bribe?</title>
            <description>Zambian Economist. 29 April 2013.</description>
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            <title>Conference Newsletter #1.</title>
            <description>Political Economy of Agricultural Policy in Africa, Future Agricultures Conference. Pretoria, South Africa. 18 March 2013.</description>
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            <title>Medium Scale Farmer Growth Trajectories in Africa: Implications for Broad-Based Growth and Poverty Reduction.</title>
            <description>Milu Muyanga, Nicholas Sitko, T.S. Jayne, Munguzwe Hichaambwa. Future Agricultures Conference on Political Economy of Agricultural Policy in Africa, Roode Vallei Hotel, Pretoria, South Africa, March 18-20, 2013.</description>
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            <title>Input Subsidy Programs in Developing Countries</title>
            <description>International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Playlists. Podomatic. April 18, 2013.</description>
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            <title>Maize yields in Zambia vs. other regions.</title>
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            <title>Maize shortage renews GM debate in Zim</title>
            <description>NewsDay. April 20, 2013.</description>
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            <title>Fertilizer subsidies &amp; voting behavior: Political economy dimensions of input subsidy programs</title>
            <description>Nicole M. Mason, T.S. Jayne, &amp; Nicolas van de Walle. Presentation at the Department of Agricultural, Food, &amp; Resource Economics, MSU. April 11, 2013.</description>
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            <title>Zambia’s input subsidy programs</title>
            <description>Nicole M. Mason, T.S. Jayne, &amp; Rhoda Mofya-Mukuka. Presentation at the IFPRI-Michigan State University workshop on Input Subsidy Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa: Methods, Findings, and Implications for Policy. IFPRI, Washington, DC. April 16, 2013.</description>
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            <title>Adoption and Intensity of Adoption of Conservation Farming Practices in Zambia</title>
            <description>Aslihan Arslan, Nancy McCarthy, Leslie Lipper, Solomon Asfaw, and Andrea Cattaneo. IAPRI Working Paper 71. February 2013.</description>
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            <title>Persistent rural poverty amidst significant agricultural growth: Where are we going wrong?</title>
            <description>Rhoda Mofya-Mukuka and IAPRI Team. Presentation to Media organizations, IAPRI, Lusaka. April 3, 2013.</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 5 Apr 2013 08:40:06 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Fertilizer subsidies &amp; voting behavior: Political economy dimensions of input subsidy programs</title>
            <description>N. Mason, T.S. Jayne, &amp; N. van de Walle. Presented at the Future Agricultures/Institute for Poverty, Land, &amp; Agrarian Studies International Conference on the Political Economy of Agricultural Policy in Africa Roodevallei Hotel, Pretoria, South Africa. March 18, 2013.</description>
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            <title>The De-Linking of Agricultural Growth and Poverty Reduction.</title>
            <description>T.S. Jayne and Munguzwe Hichaambwa. Presentation at the International Conference on the Political Economy of Agricultural Policy in Africa, Sponsored by Future Agricultures and PLAAS. March 18, 2013.</description>
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            <title>Perceptions of Climate Change and Determinants of Minimum Tillage Use by Smallholder Farmers in Zambia.</title>
            <description>Brian P. Mulenga, Hambulo Ngoma, and Thomas Jayne. Climate Smart Agriculture: Global Science Conference. University of California, Davis, U.S.A. March 20 -22, 2013.</description>
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            <title>Maize shortage renews debate over GM in Zimbabwe.</title>
            <description>IRIN. 28 March 2013</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:25:42 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Hybrid Seed, Income, and Inequality among Smallholder Maize Farmers in Zambia</title>
            <description>Melinda Smale and Nicole Mason. IAPRI Working Paper 72. March 2013.</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 08:55:40 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Impacts of Government Maize Supports on Smallholder Cotton Production in Zambia.</title>
            <description>Joseph Christopher Goeb.  Master of Science Thesis. 2011.</description>
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            <title>Fundamental Causes of High Mealie Meal Prices Amidst Bumper Harvests.</title>
            <description>Auckland N. Kuteya, T.S. Jayne and Nicholas Sitko. Presentation at the Economic Association of Zambia Meeting, Taj Pamodzi Hotel, Lusaka February 28, 2013.</description>
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            <title>Realities of smallholder land constraints and their impacts on commercialization in Zambia.</title>
            <description>M. Hichaambwa and T. S. Jayne. Presented to Swedish International Development Agency. Swedish Embassy, Lusaka. February 25, 2013.</description>
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            <title>Fundamental Causes of High Mealie Meal Prices Amidst Bumper Harvests</title>
            <description>Auckland N. Kuteya, T.S. Jayne and Nicholas Sitko. Presentation at the SIDA/FINNIDA Meeting. SIDA Conference Room, Lusaka. February 25, 2013.</description>
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            <title>How Can the Zambian Government Improve the Targeting of the Farmer Input Support Program?</title>
            <description>Rhoda Mofya-Mukuka, Stephen Kabwe, Auckland Kuteya, and Nicole M. Mason. No. 59.</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 08:31:47 -0500</pubDate>
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