This study explores the link between proximity and price cointegration between two markets, where proximity is captured with variables for geographical, political and cultural distance. Linear and threshold cointegration is tested for a set of 756 rice market pairs in 6 West African countries,...

In The Nigerian Rice Economy the authors assess three options for reducing this dependency - tariffs and other trade policies; increasing domestic rice production; and improving post-harvest rice processing and marketing - and identify improved production and post-harvest activities as the most...

The Food Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Ghana hosted a two-day Regional Workshop on Sharing Experiences on Post Harvest Rice Handling in West Africa. This workshop was an output of the DFID/CPHP/FRI Project on "Consolidating and sustaining the...