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Smallholder Heterogeneity and Maize Market Participation in Southern and Eastern Africa: Implications for Investment Strategies to Increase Marketed Food Staple Supply
Mather, David; Boughton, Duncan; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2011
living for both rural and urban households. Hence, these objectives figure prominently in Comprehensive Africa Agriculture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368797
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The Value of Accurate Crop Production Forecasts.
Jayne, Thomas S.; Rashid, Shahidur - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2010
Crop production forecasts are widely recognized as an important input into food balance sheets and for anticipating production shortfalls. However, the role of accurate crop production forecasting systems in mitigating food price instability and transitory food insecurity is often...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008741279
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Unscrambling Africa: Regional Requirements for Achieving Food Security
Haggblade, Steven - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2010
Africa has inherited highly arbitrary political borders that vastly complicate current efforts to accelerate … agricultural growth and reduce hunger. Because Africa’s inherited political borders arbitrarily partition agro-ecological zones and … agricultural trade and dampening incentives for farmers and agribusinesses to invest in Africa’s many regional breadbasket zones …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008741280
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Workshop on Agricultural Transformation in Africa: Abidjan, Côte D'Ivoire, September 26-29, 1995
Ba, Moussa Batchily; Staatz, John M.; Farrelly, Laura L.; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 1999
At the initiative of USAID, the ADB, MSU, and INSAH, 40 researchers, policy makers and private-sector entrepreneurs from 19 countries, representing 20 African and international organizations, met in Abidjan for a continent-wide workshop to debate issues related to transformation of African...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543609
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Atelier sur la transformation de l'agriculture en Afrique: Abidjan, Côte D'Ivoire, September 26-29, 1995
Ba, Moussa Batchily; Staatz, John M.; Farrelly, Laura L.; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 1999
À l'initiative de l'USAID, la BAD, MSU et l’INSAH, une quarantaine de chercheurs, de décideurs politiques et d’opérateurs-terrain venus de 19 pays et représentants une vingtaine d'institutions Africaines ou internationales se sont retrouvés à Abidjan dans le cadre d'un atelier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008499751
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Patterns and Trends in Food Staples Markets in Eastern and Southern Africa: Toward the Identification of Priority Investments and Strategies for Developing Markets and Promoting Sm...
Jayne, Thomas S.; Mason, Nicole M.; Myers, Robert J.; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2010
on smallholder crop marketing behavior and urban consumption patterns in Eastern and Southern Africa, and their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530523
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Are Staple Foods Becoming More Expensive For Urban Consumers In Eastern And Southern Africa? Trends in Food Prices, Marketing Margins, and Wage Rates in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique,...
Mason, Nicole M.; Jayne, Thomas S.; Donovan, Cynthia; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009
Africa. This study investigates patterns in staple food prices, wage rates, and marketing margins for urban consumers in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530524
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Local and Regional Food Aid Procurement: An Assessment of Experience in Africa and Elements of Good Donor Practice.
Tschirley, David L.; Castillo, Anne Marie del - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2007
which it occurs (focusing on Africa), proposes a classification of risks involved in LRP, discusses a range of potential LRP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008555518
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The Impacts of Trade Barriers and Market Interventions on Maize Price Predictability: Evidence from Eastern and Southern Africa
Chapoto, Antony; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009
There is continuing debate in east and southern Africa about the effects of food market reform on the welfare of small … unpredictability is defined as the unanticipated component of price instability, i.e., the conditional variance from a price forecast …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008555519
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Characteristics Associated with Prime-Age Mortality in Eastern and Southern Africa: Evidence from Zambia and Kenya
Chapoto, Antony; Jayne, Thomas S.; Kirimi, Lilian; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009
contract the disease. Studies conducted in Sub-Saharan Africa during the 1980s generally found a positive correlation between … support this. An emerging strand of the literature on the AIDS epidemic in Africa posits that poverty is increasingly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008555521