Food Systems Countdown Initiative Country Policy Brief Zambia

By:
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), Food Systems Countdown Initiative (Collaboration), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Columbia Climate School, CornellCALS
Date:
2025
Resource type:
Advocacy and policy

Zambia has demonstrated strong political commitment to food systems transformation while grappling with persistent systemic vulnerabilities that threaten progress toward sustainable food and nutrition security. 

As a landlocked country in southern Africa with a population largely dependent on climatesensitive smallholder agriculture, Zambia faces the urgent imperative to build resilience while addressing deep-rooted challenges of malnutrition, poverty, and environmental degradation