Evaluating the effectiveness of Out-grower Projects in reducing poverty in rural Zambia: A case of the Eastern Province
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2019
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This study sought to evaluate the effectiveness of the out-grower schemes on reducing poverty in rural Zambia. The convergent parallel strategy of the mixed research methods approach was used. The findings from the study revealed that the out-grower schemes implementation contributed positively to poverty reduction among smallholder farmers participating in the out-grower scheme. It also established that the out-grower farmers had improved their knowledge in understanding the operation of the out-grower scheme. In this regard, the study concluded that the out-grower schemes had been effective in reducing poverty in the rural areas of Zambia. The study however recommended that there was need to address the issue of power imbalance between the out-grower farmers and the out-grower firms and also to address the high illiteracy levels among the rural farmers that required document transactions, by translating contracts in the local language for ease of understanding.
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Out-grower scheme, Out-grower firm, Out-grower farmer, Independent farmer