The restructuring process of the food markets in South Africa is at an advanced stages of consolidation and the … of the National Fresh Produce Markets. The growth in disposable income, , population growth and urbanization have fuelled … the demand food outlets like supermarkets which in turn fuels innovations and dynamic changes surrounding supermarkets …

price variability are high, and despite this continued high variability in prices, price risks mitigation has lost its … importance in the country’s policy agenda. By analyzing market-based and non market-based policy options, as well as recent … trends in the cereal markets, the paper argues and concludes that reliance on any single option may not produce the expected …

Commercial rice imports have accounted for approximately 61%, food aid in rice accounted for about 2%, and domestic … rice accounted for some 37% per annum of rice consumption in Ghana over the four years between 2000 and 2003. Compared to … the 1990s, these figures show a gradual decline in the share of local rice production in the total quantities of rice …

the rice policies put in place. A collaborative multi-country pilot study on policy and institutional arrangements effects …, and Niger. In-depth surveys were carried out at both village and household levels to collect qualitative and quantitative … by the producers in these countries is the commercialization of their product and their inability to take advantage of …

As part of a major effort to address soil fertility decline in West Africa, a project on Balanced Nutrient Management … Systems (BNMS) has since 2000 been implemented in the northern Guinea savanna (NGS) of Nigeria. The project has tested and … influence the adoption and intensity of utilization of BNMS technologies in the NGS of Nigeria. Results showed that less than 10 …

the South African agricultural sector and in particular the food production system. Recently, it has been argued that the …

This paper evaluates the production and trade trends for maize and maize products in southern Africa, individual … countries’ revealed comparative advantages in producing these products, and the expected implications of freer trade in this … descriptive measures and the Revealed Comparative Advantage index. Results indicate that at least half of the countries in the …