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ABSTRACT
Rapidly growing populations, urbanisation and income are together triggering increased demand for high-value agricultural commodities across Southern Africa with scope for gains from trade and regional integration. The poultry sector in Zambia, in particular, has witnessed a rapid growth triggering increased investments and competition, benefiting the consumers. Despite this growth, the sector still faces huge challenges hindering the development of the animal feed, feed input and poultry production sub-sectors. This has limited the extent of participation of the Zambian poultry industry in the regional market due to uncompetitive prices. This study analyses the animal feed to poultry value chain in Zambia, focusing on the industry capabilities with a view to enhancing its competitiveness and production for the regional market. Enhancing value chain capabilities will require improvements in productivity and production of key poultry inputs, and addressing transportation inefficiencies and coordination among governments.
Acknowledgements
This paper was developed under the United Nations University project on ‘Regional Growth and Development in Southern Africa’. Earlier versions of this paper are available on the United Nations University website. The full citation is as below: Samboko, P.C., Zulu-Mbata, O. & Chapoto, A. (2017) Analysis of the animal feed to poultry value chain in Zambia. WIDER Working Paper 2017/59. Helsinki: UNU-WIDER.
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