This policy brief highlights some of the key trends in Zambia agricultural production since the implementation of … partial agricultural reform. …

Division of Agricultural Statistics (DSA) …

affects rural households’ size and composition, agricultural production, asset levels, and off-farm income. First, the paper …-age family members’ mortality has less dramatic effects on the households’ agricultural production, assets, and off-farm income … paper concludes by discussing the implications of these findings for agricultural research and extension programs as well as …

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 …

Research Results from the Agricultural Market Information System (SIMA) of the Department of Statistics, and the …

detailed marketing studies to be undertaken in the context of PROMISAM II’s applied research program on promoting food security … in Mali. The objective of the reconnaissance was to explore changes in cereal production and marketing patterns as an …

productivity enhancing technologies in a sustainable manner. These concerns give rise to the classic food price dilemma for policy … marketing margins, which shrink the wedge between producer and consumer prices. Moreover, Malawi faces major political and …

with infrastructure, market information, agricultural research, and other public goods. However, many of the most costly … agricultural programs in eastern and southern Africa involve raising food prices to protect farmers, lowering food prices to …