Zambia project 611-0231 · 1994–1998

Program/project to help the Government of Zambia (GRZ) to liberalize the country's agricultural sector. Program assistance will consist of a cash grant of $20 million tied to policy reforms to increase the production and marketing of selected food crops. Conditions precedent will require the GRZ to: (1) consolidate existing land-related legislation; (2) raise revenues from State-owned lands for use in financing rural infrastructure; and (3) develop market-oriented maize marketing and agricultural credit policies. Project assistance will comprise two components. A Policy Management and Implementation component will provide advisors to monitor and inform Zambian policymakers about agricultural sector activity and constraints; train personnel of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Fisheries in market liberalization and private sector promotion; and, possibly, develop legislation for privatizing agricultural marketing enterprises and services. A Small Farmer Access to Resources component will rehabilitate feeder roads; develop legislation to improve land access and tenure security; and increase the access of small farmers to agricultural credit. As counterpart, the GRZ will con

Source: DEC abstract, PD-BCJ-713 (1994). The source's own text.