rate (by 34 percent between July 2004 and July 2008) that reduced incentives for domestic production of exportables and non …-protected importables. Moreover, major external shocks to the economy (including increases in world prices of fuel in 2007 and early 2008 … the same time, foreign exchange controls reduce economic efficiency so that real incomes from factors of production (land …

on R&D, as well as the impact of production subsidies, public R&D investments, and minimum price agreements on private R … but also domestic production and profits without reducing consumers’ surplus. …

markets, while two of the three rural markets are border markets. The study uses monthly maize retail prices for the period … January 2000 to May 2008. Study findings show that nine out of the fifteen market pairs are integrated in the long-run, but … the degree of short-run market integration is low, implying that the transmission of price information is slow. …

level, technology (higher yield) was the main source of crop income growth during 1980s, while rising prices and …

parts of the country. The Robusta type dominates coffee production and Ugandan Robusta is demanded by roasters as a …, especially the collapse of world coffee prices in the late 1990s, are eroding farmer incomes and export revenues and threaten the … coffee industry, namely the decline in the world coffee market, changes in procurement strategies among coffee importers, the …

the production of important irrigated crops substantially exceeds estimated water supply costs and current ISF. However …