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Rural poverty approaches, policies & strategies in Zambia

Zambia's poverty reduction strategy includes investments in key economic sectors, with a special focus on agricultural and rural development. It also proposes to integrate policies related to HIV/AIDS, gender and protection of the environment into all rural poverty reduction initiatives and across the main sectors of the economy. The main elements of the strategy include:

• improving rural infrastructure
• creating rural employment opportunities through promotion of large-scale enterprises
• strengthening the linkage of small farmers to commercial producers and agribusinesses
• stimulating small-scale rural enterprises
• helping poor rural people improve food production techniques
• strengthening social services in education, health and sanitation

The country's poverty reduction strategy for agriculture is complemented by a national agricultural policy. The policy and strategic framework for the livestock subsector gives priority to controlling epidemic livestock diseases, as well as restocking and increasing overall livestock production.

Source: IFAD