This article came down the wire from the Mail & Guardian discussing Zambia's agricultural potential. It does get me wondering about a few questions; what constitutes "arable land" and how is agricultural productivity measured? In the case of the former, this article characterizes
420 000km2 out of 752 000km2 (55%) as arable (to visualize this, think about half the size of the state of Texas). This is the biggest figure I've heard for Zambia (I suspect the number could be higher, but they likely exclude the national parks). Must look into it ... as for the latter, I wonder if that is export production? It is a massively tricky endeavor to measure agricultural output when a large portion of the subsistence market is traded informally (i.e. never measured, accounted, etc.).
Still waiting on the call from PC Response. Fingers still crossed.
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