Resultados de Investigação do Departamento de Análise de Políticas MADER - Direcção de Economia

Research Results from the Department of Policy Analysis MARD-Directorate of Economics

This paper assesses three of these policy initiatives: input credit provision for smallholder producers of selected cash crops including cotton, the proposed creation of a Cotton Board, and the emergence in 2003 of District Council levies as a point of conflict between local governments and...

Research Results from the Policy Analysis Department, MADER – Directorate of Economics, In collaboration with Michigan State University

Resultados de Pesquisa do Departamento de Análise de Políticas MADR-Direcção de Economia

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Directorate of Economics, Republic of Mozambique

This paper focuses on one dimension which is at the core of all modern economies: how to provide private and public agents with timely and accurate information regarding current and expected future market conditions. Its objective is to show the need for a public market information system for...

1. Changes in spinning technology have increased the premium on high quality lint in the world market and increased the discount for lint contaminated with non-vegetative matter 2. The inherent characteristics of most African lint, plus the fact that it is hand-picked, should give it a...

1. Zambia has paid among the best nominal seed cotton prices to farmers in SSA since 1995. 2. By a more refined measure (share of FOT), during 1995-1999, Zambia paid prices comparable to those in Tanzania (a very competitive sector), and substantially higher than in Mozambique and WCA. However,...

1. Smallholder farmers in Africa require reliable access to purchased production inputs and credit to take advantage of export opportunities from production of cotton. 2. Unregulated and poorly coordinated markets for cotton, production inputs and credit have too often failed to deliver...