Zambia: Donor Aid Models Don’t Determine Food Security in Zambia, but Local Farming Practices Do

For decades, competing global development models have shaped sub-Saharan Africa’s agricultural landscape. Traditional western donors, such as the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), have promoted climate-smart agricultural systems such as conservation agriculture, working through non-governmental organisations. Emerging donors, such as China, champion commercial, market-driven models through private-sector contract farming. They tend to focus on high-yielding export cash crops…