This new demand is creating jobs for intermediaries between farmers and industrial manufacturers in Zambia. One manufacturing firm that is adding value to the cassava produce is Zhongkai International, a Chinese-owned multi-million-dollar company with a plant in central Zambia. The Chinese manufacturing...
The construction period, which will run for three years, will result in the creation of up to 35,000 jobs when the farming block starts operating. Dora Siliya, Zambia's Minister of Agriculture said the signing of the agreement marks a milestone in the government's endeavor to construct infras...
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As countries become more affluent, their demand for nonfood goods and services increases, and their workforces shift out of agriculture into more stable, high-paying, jobs in industry and services.5 The development of food manufacturing and services is particularly important in the process of ...
Building on core debates in the critical agrarian studies literature, we identify commercial farming areas and contract farming as producing the most local economic linkages, and plantations/estates as producing more jobs, although these are of low quality and mostly casual. We point to the gender ...
income from own farming because educated people often have access to higher paying off-farm jobs (Lanjouw2001; Satriawan and Swinton2007) compared to uneducated ones. Therefore, the educated spouse would engage in higher earning off-farm activities so as to improve the livelihood of their family....
Various reasons and constraints have been identified as the cause of the lack of youth participation in agriculture, including non-competitive salaries, the physical nature of the work and lack of information on the diverse jobs within the industry (Kidido et al. 2017); while White (2012) and...
For instance, studies by Baumgartner (2015), Deininger (2016) [61], and Hufe (2017) [62] also demonstrated that LSAI has the potential to create markets and jobs as well as increase the rate of adoption of harvesting technology and input use (seeds, fertilizer, farm equipment, etc.). ...
He said the projected increase in the prices was likely to lowerconsumptionof poultry products which would also affect jobs in the sector. "If the cheapest of all the meat, which is actually chicken, increases, then it is very likely that the capita consumption will reduce, and this has ...
Building on core debates in the critical agrarian studies literature, we identify commercial farming areas and contract farming as producing the most local economic linkages, and plantations/estates as producing more jobs, although these are of low quality and mostly casual. We point to the gender ...