Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/163025 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2017/54
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
Given likely increases in biofuel demand across Southern Africa, we identify suitable production models in Zambia for the Southern African market. This is crucial given, on the one hand, the problems of contract failure and transaction costs that plague outgrower models in Southern Africa and, on the other, the uniqueness of crops with respect to input requirements and characteristics. In this paper, we review existing cash crop production models that can be used for biofuel feedstock production in Zambia with a special focus on sugarcane and seed cotton. We find the organization of the Kaleya, Manyonyo, and Magobbo irrigation schemes as candidate institutional arrangements for bioethanol feedstock production. For biodiesel feedstocks, the Dunavant (NWK Agri-services) distributor model is best suited to increased smallholder participation.
Subjects: 
biofuels
feedstocks
institutional arrangements Zambia
Southern Africa
JEL: 
L23
O13
N77
O19
Q16
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9256-278-6
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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