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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Informal Cross Border Food Trade Report
The WFP/FEWS NET project to monitor informal
cross-border food trade in the southern Africa region
was initiated in July 2004. Through this initiative,
several borders between Zambia and neighbouring
countries - the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),
Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Mozambique - are being
monitored (see Annex 2). The commodities currently
monitored are maize, beans and rice. The findings over
the past year reveal that cross-border informal trade in
these commodities can be significant, which has
important implications for Zambia’s food security and
food balance sheet.
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