EFFECTS OF AN AGRIBUSINESS COLLAPSE ON CONTRACT GROWERS: A CASE STUDY OF MAKENI COOPERATIVE SOCIETY, LUSAKA, ZAMBIA,Used

EFFECTS OF AN AGRIBUSINESS COLLAPSE ON CONTRACT GROWERS: A CASE STUDY OF MAKENI COOPERATIVE SOCIETY, LUSAKA, ZAMBIA,Used

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This book assesses the effects of an agribusiness collapse, on the contracted growers and their surrounding communities in Lusaka Province, Zambia. In 2004, Agriflora Limited, a TransZambezi Industries Limited (TZI) agribusiness in Lusaka Zambia was sold off. Agriflora Limited was one of the largest fresh vegetable exporters in Africa. It had contracted almost 500 smallscale farmers with 14 hectares of land within 50 km radius of Lusaka to grow vegetables for export. Makeni Cooperative Society was one of the targeted groups of growers. It grew baby corn, mangetout peas, and sugar snap and fine beans for export. The case study relied on both primary and secondary data. I undertook two months of ethnographic fieldwork utilising observations, indepth interviews and informal discussions with some community members in Makeni. I also reviewed the literature on contract farming schemes (documenting both the negative and positive effects for growers) in developing countries. The case study showed that the impact of the collapse of Agriflora on the growers has been severe indeed; there has been a significant reduction in production with only a few farmers producing for export...

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