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Food Crop Marketing and Agricultural Productivity in a High Price Environment: Evidence and Implications for Mozambique

Benfica, Rui M.S.; Boughton, Duncan; Mouzinho, Bordalo; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2014

This paper assesses the relationship between agricultural productivity and market participation and performance following an increase in market prices in Mozambique. We use panel data before and after the change in price regime to identify the relative importance of market access/participation...

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Determinants of Crop Income in Rural Mozambique, 2002-2005.

Mather, David - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2012

Crop income is the predominant source of income for most rural Mozambican households, accounting for 73% of rural household income on average in 2002, and greater than 80% of the total income of the poorest 40% of rural households. While the Government of Mozambique recognizes the need to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010880014

Technical Compendium: Descriptive Agricultural Statistics and Analysis for Zambia in Support of the USAID Mission’s Feed the Future Strategic Review

Sitko, Nicholas J.; Chapoto, Antony; Kabwe, Stephen; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2011

This technical compendium was developed to serve two interrelated purposes: 1.To assist in the development of USAID Zambia’s Feed the Future (FtF) strategy by providing a broad empirical analysis of the current conditions and historical trends shaping Zambia’s agricultural and food sector;...

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Smallholder Commercialization Trends as Affected by Land Constraints in Zambia: What are the Policy Implications?

Hichaambwa, Munguzwe; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2012

Though Zambia has considerable agricultural potential, the sector’s contribution to growth and poverty reduction has been limited. The sector remains one of the most important employers of labour and remains the main source of livelihood for most rural households in Zambia. Thus key...

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Review of Sample Design for Zambia Post-harvest Survey (1997/98) and Recommendations for Improving the Sampling Strategy and Estimation Procedures

Megill, David J. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2000

Following a review of the sample design for the 1997/98 Zambia Post-Harvest Survey (PHS), described in the survey … of this report is to document the findings and recommendations from this review. Specific recommendations are made on … procedures for weighting the data and calculating the standard errors. A separate report on “Review of Questionnaire for Post …

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Maize Yield Response to Nitrogen in Malawi’s Smallholder Production Systems

Snapp, Sieg; Jayne, T.S.; Mhango, Wezi; Ricker-Gilbert, … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2014

Sustainable intensification in crop and livestock production is the foundation for smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa to adapt to a changing world, to respond to new economic opportunities, and to address poverty reduction and food security. For crop farmers, substantial gains in...

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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

This paper traces the trajectories of successful commercial smallholders operating under differing sets of market institutions. Analysis focuses on maize, cotton, and horticulture, three widely marketed crops with strikingly different market institutions. Maize receives intensive government...

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The Cost of Maize Production by Smallholder Farmers in Zambia

Burke, William J.; Hichaambwa, Munguzwe; Banda, Dingiswayo - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2011

Many agricultural policy discussions in Zambia revolve around the cost of producing maize. Despite the importance of having accurate estimates of production costs, smallholders’ cost of maize production in Zambia remain poorly understood. Various estimates are provided by interested parties,...

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Effects of Policy Reforms on Price Transmission in Coffee Markets: Evidence from Zambia and Tanzania

Mofya-Mukuka, Rhoda; Abdulai, Awudu - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2013

In the late 1990s, several governments in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) embarked on various market reforms to improve commodity market performance. The success of such market reforms depends partly on the strength of the transmission of price signals between spatially separated markets and between...

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The Maize Price Spike of 2012/13: Understanding the Paradox of High Prices despite Abundant Supplies

Sitko, Nicholas J.; Kuteya, Auckland N. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2013

The 2012 harvest was, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock national food balance sheet estimates, a major surplus production season. However, by November the same year, Zambia started experiencing widespread maize meal shortages and skyrocketing maize meal prices. Responding to...

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