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World Bank Approves Funds to Support Zambia’s Climate Resilience and Adaptation

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World Bank

WASHINGTON, May 9, 2013 - The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors today approved a US$31 million grant and a US$5 million loan from the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) of the Strategic Climate Fund to support the Government of Zambia’s efforts to strengthen its institutional framework for climate resilience, and boost the adaptive capacity of vulnerable communities in one of the poorest areas of Zambia – the Barotse sub-basin of the Zambezi.

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Zambia Food Security Outlook April to September 2013

Average maize production expected for the 2012/13 season

KEY MESSAGES

• Overall the food security situation is favorable with Minimal (IPC Phase 1) acute food insecurity outcomes. Across the country, with the start of the harvest households are accessing adequate staple food supplies and an increased variety of seasonal foods. As part of the new harvest starts to enter markets, the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) continues to ensure food supplies on the market through maize sales to millers and needy communities at fixed prices.

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Orange Maize Improves Yields and Nutrition for Families in Zambia

In the village of Muyumbana in Central Zambia, it is hard not to notice the maize. It is everywhere—towering six to seven feet high, taking up nearly every piece of open space, and crowding close to homes and schools. When the wind blows through the middle of the planted rows, it sounds like a gentle rainstorm.

Unfortunately, farmers can't always count on their crops getting enough real rain, and this year the maize in Muyumbana hasn't seen enough of it.

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Orange Maize Improves Yields and Nutrition for Families in Zambia

In the village of Muyumbana in Central Zambia, it is hard not to notice the maize. It is everywhere—towering six to seven feet high, taking up nearly every piece of open space, and crowding close to homes and schools. When the wind blows through the middle of the planted rows, it sounds like a gentle rainstorm.

Unfortunately, farmers can't always count on their crops getting enough real rain, and this year the maize in Muyumbana hasn't seen enough of it.

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Zambezi Region Launches Effort to Eliminate Malaria

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The Global Fund

VICTORIA FALLS, Zimbabwe – A regional initiative that aims to eliminate malaria in the Zambezi valley was launched today by Zambia and Zimbabwe, with support from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Announced on World Malaria Day, the cross-border initiative will accelerate efforts to eliminate malaria in the region with focused intervention, supported by existing grants from the Global Fund. Zambia and Zimbabwe hosted a series of events today in Livingstone, Zambia and Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, to launch the Trans-Zambezi Malaria Initiative.

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GIEWS Country Brief: Zambia 18-April-2013

FOOD SECURITY SNAPSHOT

  • Production prospects for the 2012/13 cropping season (October/June) are about average

  • Widespread outbreak of armyworms damages crops in late 2012, but infestation was contained

  • Food security situation remains stable, but high maize prices and poor production prospects in southern parts is a concern

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Zambia Price Bulletin April 2013

Maize grain and maize meal are the most important food commodities and indicators of food security in Zambia. All of the markets represented — with the exception of Kitwe — are in provincial centers and thus provide a geographic representation. Chipata and Choma are both areas of high maize production, while Mansa and Mongu are indicative of low production areas. Kabwe, Kitwe, and Lusaka are all urban areas where demand for these commodities is high. Solwezi is a new mining town with an increasing demand for food commodities.

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Zambia: Floods DREF Operation Update no.1 (MDRZM008)

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IFRC

Period covered by this update: 26 February - 30 March 2013.

Summary: CHF 84,691 was allocated from the IFRC’s Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) on 25 February, 2013 to support the Zambia Red Cross Society (ZRCS) in delivering assistance to 300 families (1,800 beneficiaries).

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Adoption and intensity of adoption of conservation farming practices in Zambia

This paper analyses the determinants of farmer adoption of conservation farming practices using panel data from two rounds of the Rural Incomes and Livelihoods Surveys that were implemented in 2004 and 2008. Conservation farming (CF) has been actively promoted in seven of Zambia’s nine provinces since the 1980s. CF has the technical potential to contribute to food security and adaptation to climate change; however, rigorous analyses of the determinants of adoption/dis-adoption of these practices, are still scarce.

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Flood survivors in Zambia pull together to support their own

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IFRC

By Hanna Butler, IFRC

Rivers overflowing their banks across southern Africa have recently submerged communities and crops, but in central Zambia where no rivers flow, flooding has been the result of increased levels in the water table.

For one month, from mid-January on, the central province of Mumbwa experienced heavy rains causing the water table to rise to record levels. Falling rain could not be absorbed and instead overflowed onto the already saturated land, creating a flood which eroded topsoil and damaged anything on it.

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Zambia Food Security Outlook Update March 2013

Erratic rainfall in the south could significantly reduce yields

KEY MESSAGES

  • Acute food insecurity remains Minimal (IPC Phase 1). Most households continue to depend on market purchases for their staple food and the situation is expected to remain stable through June.

  • Although erratic rainfall in southern Zambia has affected crop conditions and is likely to reduce yields, the dryness has reduced the risk of flooding in areas in western and southern Zambia has reduced.

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Electricity for All but Those the Kariba Dam Displaced

By Baboki Kayawe

LUSITU, Zambia, Mar 26 2013 (IPS) - Indigenous people who were displaced from the Zambezi Valley almost six decades ago for the construction of the Kariba Dam say they have not benefited from the development they made way for.

The building of the Kariba hydroelectric dam was supposed to usher in a bright future for the people of Zambia and Zimbabwe who gave up their land for its construction.

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Zambia Price Bulletin March 2013

Maize grain and maize meal are the most important food commodities and indicators of food security in Zambia. All of the markets represented — with the exception of Kitwe — are in provincial centers and thus provide a geographic representation. Chipata and Choma are both areas of high maize production, while Mansa and Mongu are indicative of low production areas. Kabwe, Kitwe, and Lusaka are all urban areas where demand for these commodities is high. Solwezi is a new mining town with an increasing demand for food commodities.

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Zambia Food Security Outlook Update February 2013

Restricted maize exports likely to continue

KEY MESSAGES

  • As anticipated, the general food security situation has remained favorable with Minimal (IPC Phase 1) acute food insecurity outcomes across the country. Most households are depending on market purchases in order to access their staple food. Ongoing sales of maize to millers by the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) will continue ensuring adequate supply of maize meal in markets.

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Zambia: Floods DREF Operation MDRZM008

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IFRC

The Mumbwa district in the Central Province of Zambia is the worst hit with up to 1,600 families affected.

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In the footsteps of kings

by Kieran McConville, Video Producer and Communications Specialist

The rainy season begins in October, but February is nearly always the month when floods arrive in earnest in the Western Province of Zambia, with rains continuing until late May. Floods are an annual event in this part of the world, a part of the cycle of life and cultural tradition here for centuries. Though they are expected, as we’ve seen recently in neighboring Mozambique, how they can have devastating consequences on the lives and livelihoods of the poorest people.

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CIVICUS urges Zambia to guarantee an enabling environment for Civil Society

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CIVICUS

Johannesburg. 8 February 2013. CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation expresses serious concerns on the escalating campaign to silence independent dissent in Zambia, calling on the government to take immediate steps to protect media and civil society freedoms.

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Zambia Food Security Outlook January to June 2013

Stable food security conditions expected to continue

KEY MESSAGES

• At the peak of the lean season, food insecurity outcomes across the country have mostly remained Minimal (IPC Phase 1). With the significantly reduced supply of maize grain in public markets and at household level, most households are depending on industrially processed maize meal. Maize sales to millers by the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) is keeping the markets adequately supplied, while needy rural communities are also accessing the commodity from the Agency.

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Feed the Future Groundnut Grants Improve Local Value Chains at the Grassroots Level

With grants provided by Feed the Future through the United States African Development Foundation (USADF), 1,800 smallholder farmers in Zambia’s Eastern Province are strengthening their capacity to supply groundnuts to oil and nut butter processors, translating into improved food security, nutrition and economic opportunities.