This study explores the link between proximity and price cointegration between two markets, where proximity is captured with variables for geographical, political and cultural distance. Linear and threshold cointegration is tested for a set of 756 rice market pairs in 6 West African countries,...

The Food Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Ghana hosted a two-day Regional Workshop on Sharing Experiences on Post Harvest Rice Handling in West Africa. This workshop was an output of the DFID/CPHP/FRI Project on "Consolidating and sustaining the...

This paper aims to investigate the presence of price transfer asymmetry (APT) in the rice production chain in Rio Grande do Sul incorporating in the analysis the effects of public policy interventions, specifically the agricultural minimum prices. The results indicate the occurrence of positive...

The commonly touted solution to achieve food security has always been articulated as achieving self-sufficiency in rice. Since the 1960s, various government regimes have articulated strategies and executed actions to achieve this much-vaunted goal. It has been over half a century, but we have...

The rice price-pledging scheme is a price support program that aims to provide a loan at low interest rate to farmers. The government lends the farmer money equivalent to the value of the pledged rice. This policy has been criticized that it may distort the market mechanism. Therefore, this...

The rapid appraisal is mainly based on the interview of select players in various levels of the palay/rice value chain from Pangasinan and Nueva Ecija to Metro Manila. It finds that the paddy and rice supply chain is multilayered with many competing players in each layer with no evidence of any...