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The agricultural sector landscape in Zambia has been inundated with policies designed and implemented by successive governments to enhance broad-based agricultural development. Since 1964, each policy adopted for the sector has had its own set of objectives and with time, new goals have been identi ied and incorporated in subsequent policies in response to changes in the socioeconomic environment. To assess the effectiveness of the myriad policies in achieving intended objectives, agricultural policy analysts (those in academia, line government ministries, the national agricultural research system, civil society and independent policy think tanks) have been on hand to provide evidenced-based analysis. Therefore, as we began discussions about putting together a special issue on agriculture, it became clear that the issue had to focus on emerging topics in the Zambian agricultural policy analysis space …