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12/02/2016 — Zambia

El Niño Set To Have A Devastating Impact On Southern Africa’s Harvests And Food Security
20/01/2016 — Zambia

WFP Boosts Food Security By Connecting Smallholder Farmers To Global Markets
18/01/2016 — Zambia

Growing Concern About El Nino’s Impact On Southern Africa As Planting Window Closes
13/01/2016 — Zambia

Visit To Zambia By Executive Director Of The UN World Food Programme
23/09/2014 — Zambia

Innovative Climate-Risk Solution Expands To Insure Farmers In Malawi And Zambia
28/05/2012 — Zambia

WFP And SADC In Historic Alliance To Fight Hunger In Southern Africa

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Zambia, Chimpili, 11 October 2015

In Zambia, the smallholder farmers of Chimpili Cooperative are benefiting from joint support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP). With comprehensive supply-side support, improved infrastructure and market access, cooperative members are now growing sustainable businesses.

Harriet Chabala has increased her production of beans by 50 percent over the last two years. Based on her entrepreneurial skills and consistent supply to WFP for the last three marketing seasons, she received an equipment loan from the cooperative for a tricycle. The tricycle can navigate poor quality roads, enabling Harriet to provide transport services to move crops, inputs and people to and from towns and markets.

In the photo: Harriet Chabala poses with the tricycle she acquired with a loan from Chimpili Cooperative.

Photo: WFP/Evin Joyce

Zambia, 8 November 2016 
Cowpeas are notoriously vulnerable to infestation by insects called weevils. Weevils lay their eggs on cowpeas at the time of harvest. These eggs hatch as larvae and then burrow inside the cowpea. They emerge as adults one month later (usually when the crop is in storage) and reproduce. As the cycle repeats itself, thousands of the insects can be found in a single bag of cowpeas, making them unfit for human consumption.   Purdue Improved Crop Storage (PICS) bags are a simple and low-cost method of reducing post-harvest cowpea losses due to bruchid infestations in west and central Africa, helping smallholder farmers.   In the photo: Beneficiaries of PICS bags in Zambia. 
Photo: WFP/Evin Joyce

Zambia, 8 November 2016 
Cowpeas are notoriously vulnerable to infestation by insects called weevils. Weevils lay their eggs on cowpeas at the time of harvest. These eggs hatch as larvae and then burrow inside the cowpea. They emerge as adults one month later (usually when the crop is in storage) and reproduce. As the cycle repeats itself, thousands of the insects can be found in a single bag of cowpeas, making them unfit for human consumption.   Purdue Improved Crop Storage (PICS) bags are a simple and low-cost method of reducing post-harvest cowpea losses due to bruchid infestations in west and central Africa, helping smallholder farmers.   In the photo: Beneficiaries of PICS bags in Zambia. 
Photo: WFP/Evin Joyce

Zambia, 8 November 2016 
Cowpeas are notoriously vulnerable to infestation by insects called weevils. Weevils lay their eggs on cowpeas at the time of harvest. These eggs hatch as larvae and then burrow inside the cowpea. They emerge as adults one month later (usually when the crop is in storage) and reproduce. As the cycle repeats itself, thousands of the insects can be found in a single bag of cowpeas, making them unfit for human consumption.   Purdue Improved Crop Storage (PICS) bags are a simple and low-cost method of reducing post-harvest cowpea losses due to bruchid infestations in west and central Africa, helping smallholder farmers.   In the photo: Beneficiaries of PICS bags in Zambia. 
Photo: WFP/Evin Joyce

Zambia, Kanchomba South agricultural camp, Pemba, 10 February 2016

WFP and Oxfam America launched the R4 Rural Resilience Initiative (R4) in 2011 to enable vulnerable rural families to increase their food and income security by managing climate-related risks.

In Zambia R4 is being expanded to support household own production and connectivity to markets, in addition to improving their ability to manage climate risk.

In the photo: R4 Beneficiaries in Kanchomba South agricultural camp.

Photo: WFP/Evin Joyce

Zambia, Kanchomba South agricultural camp, Pemba, 10 February 2016

WFP and Oxfam America launched the R4 Rural Resilience Initiative (R4) in 2011 to enable vulnerable rural families to increase their food and income security by managing climate-related risks.

In Zambia R4 is being expanded to support household own production and connectivity to markets, in addition to improving their ability to manage climate risk.

In the photo: R4 Beneficiaries in Kanchomba South agricultural camp.

Photo: WFP/Evin Joyce

Zambia, Kanchomba South agricultural camp, Pemba, 10 February 2016

WFP and Oxfam America launched the R4 Rural Resilience Initiative (R4) in 2011 to enable vulnerable rural families to increase their food and income security by managing climate-related risks.

In Zambia R4 is being expanded to support household own production and connectivity to markets, in addition to improving their ability to manage climate risk.

In the photo: R4 Beneficiaries in Kanchomba South agricultural camp.

Photo: WFP/Evin Joyce

Zambia, Kanchomba South agricultural camp, Pemba, 10 February 2016

WFP and Oxfam America launched the R4 Rural Resilience Initiative (R4) in 2011 to enable vulnerable rural families to increase their food and income security by managing climate-related risks.

In Zambia R4 is being expanded to support household own production and connectivity to markets, in addition to improving their ability to manage climate risk.

In the photo: R4 Beneficiaries in Kanchomba South agricultural camp.

Photo: WFP/Evin Joyce

Zambia, Kanchomba South agricultural camp, Pemba, 10 February 2016

WFP and Oxfam America launched the R4 Rural Resilience Initiative (R4) in 2011 to enable vulnerable rural families to increase their food and income security by managing climate-related risks.

In Zambia R4 is being expanded to support household own production and connectivity to markets, in addition to improving their ability to manage climate risk.

In the photo: R4 Beneficiaries in Kanchomba South agricultural camp.

Photo: WFP/Evin Joyce

Zambia, Kanchomba South agricultural camp, Pemba, 10 February 2016

WFP and Oxfam America launched the R4 Rural Resilience Initiative (R4) in 2011 to enable vulnerable rural families to increase their food and income security by managing climate-related risks.

In Zambia R4 is being expanded to support household own production and connectivity to markets, in addition to improving their ability to manage climate risk.

In the photo: R4 Beneficiaries in Kanchomba South agricultural camp.

Photo: WFP/Evin Joyce

Zambia, Kanchomba South agricultural camp, Pemba, 10 February 2016

WFP and Oxfam America launched the R4 Rural Resilience Initiative (R4) in 2011 to enable vulnerable rural families to increase their food and income security by managing climate-related risks.

In Zambia R4 is being expanded to support household own production and connectivity to markets, in addition to improving their ability to manage climate risk.

In the photo: R4 Beneficiaries in Kanchomba South agricultural camp.

Photo: WFP/Evin Joyce

Zambia, Kanchomba South agricultural camp, Pemba, 10 February 2016

WFP and Oxfam America launched the R4 Rural Resilience Initiative (R4) in 2011 to enable vulnerable rural families to increase their food and income security by managing climate-related risks.

In Zambia R4 is being expanded to support household own production and connectivity to markets, in addition to improving their ability to manage climate risk.

In the photo: R4 Beneficiaries in Kanchomba South agricultural camp.

Photo: WFP/Evin Joyce

Videos(5)Video archives

11/10/2012 — Zambia

First Lady of Zambia Dr. Christine Kaseba Sata

Empowering the poor is the key to feeding the nation, says First Lady of Zambia Dr. Christine Kaseba Sata, who calls on governments to ensure that land is used properly to reduce hunger and poverty.
06/07/2011 — Zambia

WFP Zambia - Mobile Delivery & Tracking System

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