Livestock holdings in rural areas of the West African Semi-arid Tropics (WASAT) are often substantial yet there is … consumption ex post via savings in the form of livestock. Based on data covering Burkina Faso's 2004 drought, we find that … livestock sales increase significantly in response to drought with households citing the need to finance food consumption. Some …

method to identify the determinants of livestock producer prices for pastoralists in the drylands of northern Kenya. The … supply, and especially rainfall on the prices pastoralists receive for animals. Price risk premia are consistently negative … in these livestock markets. The imposition of quarantines has a sharp negative effect on expected producer prices in the …

This study aims at developing econometric models to manage the price risk of Dry and Wet Cocoa beans with the help of … ARIMA (Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average) and VAR (Vector Auto Regressive). The monthly price of Cocoa beans is … futures price from the website of investing.com. The augmented dickey fuller test is used to test the stationarity of the …