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What went wrong?
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This book grapples with the hypothesis that the Structural Adjustment Program the Zambian government implemented, in collaboration with the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, compounded the food crisis and poverty in Zambia between 1992 and 2002. The withdrawal of state involvement from agriculture and related reduction in funding to the sector were the major factors that worsened the country's food problems. Agriculture collapsed, poverty and food insecurity ravaged the urban populations and the rural areas started to degenerate. To demonstrate what went wrong in Zambia, the book investigates the impact of agricultural liberalization on commercial and peasant farmers, and their consequent reactions. The privatization and liquidation of quasi-government corporations, as part of structural adjustment, led to massive retrenchment of workers. This compounded poverty and hunger for many urban households. The vulnerable urban and rural households adopted a myriad of coping strategies in their quest for survival. I examine the ramifications of Structural Adjustment on agriculture in a case study of the rural Mkushi district and the urban Lusaka district.
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Dr. Chewe Mebbien Chabatama is a lecturer of History at the University of Zambia. The author was a visiting Professor of African History at the University of Texas at San Antonio in the USA in 2007-2008.Dr Chabatama holds a PhD in African History from the University of Toronto in Canada.
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- Allgemeine Informationen
- Sprache Englisch
- Anzahl Seiten 116
- Herausgeber LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
- Gewicht 191g
- Untertitel Structural Adjustment, and Food Politics in Zambia
- Autor Chewe Chabatama
- Titel What went wrong?
- Veröffentlichung 15.10.2011
- ISBN 3846528730
- Format Kartonierter Einband
- EAN 9783846528730
- Jahr 2011
- Größe H220mm x B150mm x T7mm
- Auflage Aufl.
- GTIN 09783846528730