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Who Gained and Who Lost from Zambia's 2010 Maize Marketing Policies?
Nkonde, Chewe; Mason, Nicole M.; Sitko, Nicholas J.; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2011
benefited from the bumper crop and FRA‟s involvement in maize marketing. The FRA‟s high buy price and purchase of nearly 900 … key features of the 2010/11 GRZ maize marketing policies and their likely income distributional effects on various …
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Malawi’s Maize Marketing System
Jayne, Thomas S.; Sitko, Nicholas J.; Ricker-Gilbert, Jacob - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2010
marketing margins, which shrink the wedge between producer and consumer prices. Moreover, Malawi faces major political and …
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A Farm Gate-to-Consumer Value Chain Analysis of Kenya’s Maize Marketing System
Kirimi, Lilian; Sitko, Nicholas J.; Jayne, Thomas S.; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2011
enable smallholders to develop more effective marketing strategies and to negotiate more effectively with traders, in order … to reduce marketing costs as well as the cost of modern inputs such as fertilizer to the farm gate. Rehabilitating the … marketing policy to adherence to more systematic rules-based policies. Nurturing credible commitment in regard to trade policy …
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Does the Current Sugar Market Structure Benefit Consumers and Sugarcane Growers?
Chisanga, Brian; Meyer, Ferdinand H.; Winter-Nelson, Alex; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2014
Over the years, the sugar sector has experienced tremendous growth which has been driven by increased Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). According to the United Nation’s Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO 2013), raw sugar production rose from 135,000 tons in 1990 to 430,500 tons by 2012,...
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Creating Scarcity From Abundance: Bumper Harvests, High Prices, And The Role Of State Interventions In Zambian Maize Markets
Kuteya, Auckland N.; Sitko, Nicholas J. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2014
From 2010 through 2012 harvest seasons, Zambian farmers produced three consecutive maize bumper harvests. The total maize production during this period was 8.6 million metric tonness, of which 4.6 million metric tonnes was a marketable surplus (CSO/MAL various years). This far exceeded the...
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Agricultural Transformation in Zambia: Alternative Institutional Models for Accelerating Agricultural Productivity Growth, and Commercialization
Chapoto, Antony; Haggblade, Steven; Hichaambwa, Munguzwe; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2012
institutions. Maize receives intensive government input and marketing support. In contrast, cotton relies primarily on private …
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Assessing the Feasibility of Implementing the Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP) Through an Electronic Voucher System in Zambia
Sitko, Nicholas J.; Bwalya, Richard; Kamwanga, Jolly; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2012
A number of problems plague the current Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP), including: late delivery of inputs; distribution of standardized inputs that may not be appropriate for all agro-ecological zones or soil types; crowding out of private sector; poor targeting, and; high cost to the...
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