Commercial rice imports have accounted for approximately 61%, food aid in rice accounted for about 2%, and domestic … rice accounted for some 37% per annum of rice consumption in Ghana over the four years between 2000 and 2003. Compared to … the 1990s, these figures show a gradual decline in the share of local rice production in the total quantities of rice …

Commercial rice imports have accounted for approximately 61%, food aid in rice accounted for about 2%, and domestic … rice accounted for some 37% per annum of rice consumption in Ghana over the four years between 2000 and 2003. Compared to … the 1990s, these figures show a gradual decline in the share of local rice production in the total quantities of rice …

well managed. This is well illustrated by the case of Koussin-Lélé rice scheme in the central Benin. This paper apply … inequality indices and frontier production function to data from a sample of male and women rice farmers to analyze the gender …

This study identifies the reasons for low producer prices of rice that have not covered its production costs for many … years in Madagascar. The following points will be discussed: the farmers’ marketing conditions and the rural rice market … structure, including the functions of each intervening trader preceding rice distribution in urban centers. The study also …

countries having varying policy stances on biotechnology, COMESA (COMESA—Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, is a … of shaping a regional consensus on biotechnology policy for their 20 countries between 2004 and 2006 and adopted it in …

Managing food price instability is a long standing policy challenge, which, with mixed experiences of agricultural … price policy reforms, has re-emerged as a contemporary policy issue. This is particularly true for Ethiopia, where managing … food price stability continues to be a formidable policy challenge. The objective of this paper is to examine the …

Recent efforts to develop rice cultivars with drought-tolerance (DT) traits have resulted in the release of several … are willing to pay even more for cultivars that offer yield advantages even under normal conditions. Rice farmers were …

The burning of rice stubbles is widely practised in rice based farming systems in north-west India (Punjab, Haryana and … tractor powered machine capable of direct drilling wheat in standing rice stubbles, provides an alternative to burning …. However, the adoption of this technology has been limited and burning of rice stubbles remains widespread. The Australian …

, itcan contribute to an improved understanding of trade policy for regional and global rice supply and,thus, for improved …There is a strong linkage between the behavior of the rice market and the state of food security inmany regions around … the world, particularly in Asia, as made evident in the 2007-08 commoditycrisis. Rice is a staple for the majority of the …