A TOOLKIT FOR ZAMBIAN POLICYMAKERS AND URBAN PLANNERS

The document outlines the challenges of urban food insecurity in Zambia, drawing on household surveys from 14 cities. It advocates for a diverse urban food system that integrates formal and informal sources, such as street vending and urban agriculture. The toolkit details how the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) can be used for food-system investments and maps specific local and national policies—including those related to land, energy, and climate change—that can be leveraged to improve food access and affordability.

• Household surveys conducted in 14 Zambian cities between 2019 and 2021 revealed that 40 percent of surveyed households were food insecure in 2019, with female-headed households of lower incomes facing the greatest hardships.
• Across all income levels, high food prices were identified as the primary challenge to maintaining food security, followed by employment and income stability, and then climate- or weather-related challenges.
• Urban agriculture participation increased from 40 percent of households in 2019 to 50 percent in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, remaining at 48 percent in 2022, though practitioners struggle with land access, water, and inputs.
• The Constituency Development Fund (CDF), which increased to K28.3 million per constituency in the 2023 National budget, has been used for food-system projects including fishponds in Lusaka and Southern Province, a maize mill in Kitwe, and market upgrades in Kanyama and Chibombo.
• The CDF has been utilized to empower women in the food sector through business management training for vendors in Lusaka, loans for food businesses in Ndola, a dedicated women's market in Kitwe, and urban agriculture training in Kabwe.
• The document identifies several national policies essential for food security, including the National Lands Policy for allocating urban food production land and the National Climate Change Policy for investing in climate-resilient urban infrastructure.

APA

Global Resilience Partnership (2023). A TOOLKIT FOR ZAMBIAN POLICYMAKERS AND URBAN PLANNERS. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/sara_policy-toolkit_ufs_21nov.pdf

Chicago

Global Resilience Partnership. A TOOLKIT FOR ZAMBIAN POLICYMAKERS AND URBAN PLANNERS. 2023. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/sara_policy-toolkit_ufs_21nov.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{globalresiliencepartnership2023toolkit, author = {{Global Resilience Partnership}}, title = {{A TOOLKIT FOR ZAMBIAN POLICYMAKERS AND URBAN PLANNERS}}, institution = {Global Resilience Partnership}, year = {2023}, month = jul, url = {https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/sara_policy-toolkit_ufs_21nov.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }