Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute (IAPRI) on The Conversation

IAPRI’s principal mandate is to carry out agricultural policy research and outreach activities, serving the agricultural sector in Zambia to achieve sustainable and broad-based pro-poor agricultural development. Achieving this entails enhancing smallholder agricultural productivity, expanding agricultural markets and trade, improving natural resource management, and expanding the resilience of vulnerable households to external shocks.

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June 18, 2023

Gold fraud: the Goldenberg scam that cost Kenya billions of dollars in the 1990s – and no one was jailed

Roman Grynberg, Griffith University and Fwasa K Singogo, Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute (IAPRI)

In a world where economic sanctions make trade in US dollars almost impossible, gold has offered a way to evade these restrictions.

Lorries blocked at the border between DRC and Zambia. Poor roads are a major stumbling block to trade. Lucien Kahozi/AFP via Getty Images)

August 1, 2022

Zambia can meet growing food demand: how to fix what’s standing in its way

Antony Chapoto, Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute (IAPRI); Ntombifuthi Tshabalala, University of Johannesburg, and Simon Roberts, University of Johannesburg

Producers in Zambia should be getting more for their crops, and buyers in East Africa should be paying less, alleviating food price spikes.

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Antony Chapoto
Research Director, Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute (IAPRI)
Fwasa K Singogo
Research Associate, Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute (IAPRI)

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