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{{Infobox food ...ration, it is cheap and abundant in all shops and markets. It is a staple food in [[Zambia]],<ref name="Mwakikagile 2008 p. 186"/> Lesotho, Swaziland, Sou

==1990 food riots== ...news/mn-1033_1_food-rioting WORLD IN BRIEF : ZAMBIA : 23 Dead in 3 Days of Food Rioting], LA Times, 28 June 1990</ref> About 27 people were killed and more

==Food== ...of fish, and dried in the hot Zambezi Valley sun. It is a hugely important staple, providing refrigeration-free protein to people of Africa. A cup of dried k

...fertile, and the only food that grows well in it is cassava, which is the staple of the people on the island. The main settlements on Chilubi Island are Muc

...l Franklin, "Corn," in Andrew F. Smith (ed.), ''The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America''. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013 (pp. ...o]] is the site of early [[Domestication#plants|domestication]] of several food crops, including [[teosinte]] (an ancestor of maize).<ref name="benz">{{cit

...and fertilizer; and increased prices for farm produce. Kaunda's removal of food subsidies caused massive increases in the prices of basic foodstuffs; the c ...0. [[Maize]] (corn) is the principal [[cash crop]] as well as the [[staple food]]. Other important crops include [[soybean]], [[cotton]], [[sugar]], [[sunf

...ying in the plain, but preferred forests where they cultivate their staple food such as cassava, millet family crops, beans, groundnuts and bush potatoes.

The harshness of the SAPs was to cause serious food riots in Zambia during the last years of the UNIP government when subsidies The political unrest in Zambia, including food riots in which 30 people died and an attempted coup, resulted in a call for