Prepared for the Comesa policy seminar on “Variation in staple food prices: Causes, consequence, and policy options”, Maputo, Mozambique, 25-26 January 2010 under the African Agricultural Marketing Project (AAMP)

Prepared for the Comesa policy seminar on “Variation in staple food prices: Causes, consequence, and policy options”, Maputo, Mozambique, 25-26 January 2010 under the African Agricultural Marketing Project (AAMP)

Published by Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa

Zambia’s population clusters tightly in cities along the north-south line of rail and in the primarily rural areas of Eastern Province (Figure 1). Staple food consumption and purchases are similarly concentrated in these heavily populated clusters (Figures 4 and 5). Across the border, several...

BRAC designed and implemented a project namely Kallyan project aiming to improve the quality of life of the retrenched workers of state-owned enterprises of Bangladesh. This study aimed to map the project’s cumulative achievements, and to assess its impact on the livelihood of the...

Actualmente hay 33 países que se enfrentan a crisis de seguridad alimentaria, 14 de los cuales llevan en esta situación desde hace más de una década. Cuando las emergencias se prolongan durante tanto tiempo, los tradicionales paradigmas humanitarios y de desarrollo no son válidos para dar...

Environs trois quarts des pauvres à travers le monde vivent dans les zones rurales. Parmi eux, les femmes constituent un groupe particulièrement vulnérable et pourtant stratégique pour le développement économique et social. Investir au profit des femmes rurales ne répond alors plus...

33 pays sont actuellement confrontés à une crise de sécurité alimentaire. 14 d’entre eux subisse cette situation depuis plus d’une décennie. Quand l’urgence perdure aussi longtemps, les paradigmes traditionnels du développement et de l’aide humanitaire sont impuissants à trouver...

33 countries currently face a food security crisis, 14 of which have been in this situation for more than a decade. When emergencies continue for such extended periods of time, traditional humanitarian and development paradigms are not suitable for guiding effective responses. Rather than...