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From 1997-2007, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Title II monetization programs sold more than US$200 million of food aid wheat and unrefined vegetable oils in Mozambique. This research has three objectives: 1) to document the lessons learned from past monetization...
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In the last decade, internal conflict has greatly hindered market transactions across regions of Sudan, especially transactions between Darfur and the Rest of Sudan. Food aid has helped to offset not only the absence of commercial inflows of grain, but also reductions in Darfur’s cereal...
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, a theoretical model is developed to explain price transmission for different trade regimes. Drawing from the competitive … if no trade takes place but future trade is expected. Using a global database on food prices, we construct national and …
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This paper investigates sources and determinants of agricultural growth in Africa, concentrating on the growth path …
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impact on agriculture, industry and trade. However, to date for the whole of Africa, only South Africa has commercialized … genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Realizing the high transactions costs—particularly in trade that may underlie different … countries having varying policy stances on biotechnology, COMESA (COMESA—Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, is a …
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Paper to be presented at the Comesa policy seminar “Food price variability: Causes, consequences, and policy options" on 25-26 January 2010 in Maputo, Mozambique under the Comesa-MSU-IFPRI African Agricultural Markets Project (AAMP)
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The main objective of this paper is to examine whether the staple food markets in Africa are efficient. It does so by … in market integration in sub-Saharan Africa, and providing evidence from recently conducted surveys on the determinants …
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Guided by the frame work of a household model under credit market failure, this paper aims at investigating the impact of access to credit on the adoption of hybrid maize among households that vary in their credit constraints. The data used in the study is from Malawi collected by the...
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This paper examines the extent to which garment industry in Swaziland has contributed to the economic empowerment of the Swazi people through creation of new jobs and improvement in their overall welfare. In Swaziland as elsewhere in many African countries, unemployment has been and is still a...
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