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IFAD in Zambia: voices from the field

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Lack of access to reliable and up-to-date market price information is a serious problem for smallholder farmers across Africa. Without this information, they are vulnerable to unscrupulous traders giving them prices at below-market rates. Furthermore, they are reluctant to diversify into different cash crops for fear of not finding a profitable market for their output

Source: IFAD
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Statistics
Projects: 12

Total cost:
US$249.9 million

Approved IFAD loan:
US$183.1 million

Directly benefiting:
601,280 households
Contact Information

Fumiko Nakai
Country programme manager
Via Paolo di Dono, 44
Rome, Italy
Work: +39 0654592283
Mobile: +39 0654593283
f.nakai@ifad.org

Dick Siame
Country Programme Officer
Plot 5, Addis Ababa Drive Rhodes Park,
Lusaka, Zambia
Work: +2601252 558
Fax: +2601254173
d.siame@ifad.org
dnsiame@yahoo.uk