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This chapter analyzes the case of Zambia. We describe the household survey (Sect. 5.1), the food and cash crops institutional arrangements (Sect. 5.2) and we present the farmgate price simulation results from the model (Sect. 5.3) and the household welfare simulations (Sect. 5.4).
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Depetris Chauvin, N., Porto, G., Mulangu, F. (2017). The Case of Zambia. In: Agricultural Supply Chains, Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53858-6_5
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