
Simon MandaUniversity of Leeds · School of Politics and International Studies
Simon Manda
Doctor of Philosophy
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October 2014 - January 2019
September 2010 - September 2011
February 2004 - February 2008
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This study investigates how expansion of soyabean production enhances smallholder livelihoods in rural Zambia. Using a mixed-methods research design that integrates questionnaire surveys, focus group discussions, and interviews. The results show that a clear policy orientation has driven the expansion of soyabean production, which has been underpin...
The Zambian economy has evolved from simple and fragmented agrarian activities at the turn of the twentieth century into a wide range of organized and regulated modern economic activities. Although the economy has largely revolved around the mining industry since the early 1920s when the extraction of copper and other mineral ores begun on the Copp...
Zambia has undergone major reforms in land administration and governance from the pre-independence times to date. These reforms have altered access to land, land tenure, and governance. More recently, the country has witnessed a surge in medium- and large-scale land acquisitions. Given the centrality of land to Zambia’s economy, it is important to...
This article explores the integration (or marginality) of indigenous and local knowledge (IKL) in donor-driven community climate adaptation (CDCA) projects and the extent to which this helps expand inventories of adaptation possibilities for host communities and strengthen climate adaptation resilience in Zambia. Through multi-level qualitative res...
This article offers an introduction to the special section about the theme of ‘African ecologies and indigenous knowledges’. It explores the interest of scholars, policy makers and activists in indigenous knowledges as a resource for addressing global challenges, particularly the challenges in relation to the environment and climate change in conte...
This article offers an introduction to the special section about the theme of ‘African Ecologies: Literature, Culture and Religion’. It explores the current interdisciplinary field of scholarship on ecology, environment, and climate change in Africa, mapping contributions from across the Humanities and the Social and Environmental Sciences. The art...
This chapter examines the experiences and narratives around Chinese agro-investments in the cotton sub-sector in Zambia. It does so by tracing historically the development of the cotton industry in Zambia from the time of independence until the current period, with the structural adjustment programme in the 1990s being a significant feature in this...
This paper asks whether value chain integration increases smallholder resilience during shocks. Using a qualitative research study design and the test case of the ‘sugar‐belt’ in Zambia, the paper draws on interviews with participants from different stakeholder groups, including household case studies and group discussions. Results show sugarcane v...
This paper explores mechanisms that render different state actors capable of exerting customary land pressures, land grabbing or facilitating conditions for doing so. Specifically, the paper examines provisions state actors rely upon in the acquisition of rural customary land and implications. Using the test case of a rural district of Mafinga in e...
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Soybean farming in Zambia is promoted to increase farm productivity and diversification away from maize, and improve cash income and livelihoods for farmers. However, the impact of soybean farming on women's dietary intake is not clear. This study compares the dietary diversity of women from soybean (S) and non-soybean (NS) farming hou...
To date, there are limited quantitative inter-comparisons and assessments of water-energy-food (WEF) resources availability in Africa, while existing studies do not reveal disparities in WEF security among different sub-regions thus failing to offer lessons for coordinated efforts. This study provides a quantitative evaluation of WEF resources acro...
This study explores microfinancial institutions (MFIs) and processes that shape (dis)empowerment among women operating in informal business settings in Zambia, drawing from a schema that integrates multi-dimensional, multi-level, and dynamic understandings of livelihoods specifically how MFIs shape prospects of ‘stepping-up,’ ‘stepping-out,’ or ‘ha...
This paper explores COVID‐19 policy responses and experiences of their impact on food systems and livelihoods, and other factors shaping vulnerability among peri‐urban small‐scale farmers in Zambia. We draw on household surveys and case studies, multi‐level interviews and group discussions to make sense of ‘new normal’ policy (in)action and its (in...
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An adequate supply of energy, micronutrients and macronutrients is essential to achieve food and nutrition security to prevent malnutrition. Socio-economic, political, and climatic events, however, can affect the supply of food and nutrients. We assessed country-level supply trends of food and nutrients and their sources within the con...
This article investigates whether it is possible to bring the longue durée, or the re-contextualization of risk distribution and accumulation, into litigation about climate outcomes. We do this by analyzing the structure of disaster litigation to identify if and whether historical harm is included in argumentation and by applying the concept of tak...
This article explores how sugarcane commercialization impacts gender relations, and processes that shape them, using two differently structured outgrower schemes – a settlement scheme and an European Union-driven block farm in southern Zambia. Results show gendered impacts across the schemes are complex and are shaped by diverse cultural arrangemen...
Integration of smallholders in outgrower schemes has been advanced as a strategy for poverty reduction in the global south, but how terms and conditions of inclusion and exclusion shape divergent outcomes, and processes underpinning these local dynamics remain an under-researched area. This study, set in Zambia’s southern ‘sugarbelt’ region of Maza...
The food crisis of 2007/8, alongside rapid population growth, and the uncertainties of climate change propelled African agricultural transformation back into the development mainstream. New narratives of ‘climate-smart agriculture’ and ‘sustainable intensification’ underlie this contemporary transformation. We present a political economy analysis o...
Large-scale land acquisitions (LaSLAs) have been a common feature of neoliberal transformation in which state entities facilitate foreign investments; yet the related governance dynamics remain poorly understood. This paper combines policy analysis and interview data to investigate governance dynamics of LaSLAs and analyses competing authority and...
Sustainable Development Goals have brought optimism around ‘agriculture for development’ but also questioned agribusinesses in sustainable development. This paper assesses how an agribusiness’ power exploits domains to exert control over industry governance. Using interviews and group discussions from three smallholder outgrower schemes under Illov...
In critical agrarian studies, the connections between large-scale agricultural investments and outgrower schemes are strong, but evidence on which model produces improved livelihood outcomes remains relatively weak. This paper examines livelihood impacts in two differently structured outgrower schemes under Zambia Sugar Plc – ZaSPlc, a subsidiary o...
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'China in Africa' has increasingly attracted scholarly attention. How might we understand the role of China in Africa?