affecting market prices. This paper estimates the effects of the Zambia Food Reserve Agency’s (FRA) activities on maize market … via strategic reserves and marketing boards. Kenya, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Zambia all have one or both …

This policy synthesis estimates the effects of the Zambia Food Reserve Agency’s (FRA) activities on maize market prices … in the country. The FRA, a government parastatal strategic food reserve/maize marketing board, buys maize at a pan …-territorial price that typically exceeds wholesale market prices in major maize producing areas. It then exports the maize or sells it …

In 2011, Zambia recorded its second consecutive record-breaking maize harvest, and aggregate maize production levels in … 2011 were more than double the average level from 2006 to 2008. The expansion in maize production over the period … corresponds with the scaling up of the Government of the Republic of Zambia's (GRZ) two flagship agricultural sector programmes …

maize production. But ironically, rural poverty remains stubbornly high despite the fact that the government has spent over … 2% of the nation’s gross domestic product in supporting maize production and subsidizing inputs for farmers. Why is it … that maize production has increased so impressively without making a serious dent in rural poverty? And what are the …

agronomic practices to farmers may substantially promote maize production and yields in Zambia. … between 55 and 90 percent of the area that they planted to maize. 2. In the 2009/10 and 2010/11 crop years, over 80 percent of … the maize area planted by small- and medium-scale farmers was harvested, mainly due to favorable weather. 3. In 2010 …

objective for this paper is to better inform policy discussions about the effects of alternative maize pricing and marketing …

markets. Millet, sorghum, and later rice were the traditional leading three cereal crops produced and consumed in Mali. Maize … quantities. Given the potentials of maize, developing and better organizing its subsector has the potential to not only increase … revenues for maize farmers, but also create profitable opportunities for other actors in the subsector (traders, marketers …

starting in 1993 to control the invasive exotic maize stemborer Chilo partellus (Swinhoe) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae). A quasi … estimate the probability that farmers’ would inadvertently exclude parasitoids in their maize field. Thereafter the propensity … indicate a rampant use of pesticides at sublethal dosage across the countries. Intensifying maize production by is likely to …

The present work provides evidence that non linear co-integration between Mexico and the US maize prices exists, at …

Women are central to food production and maize is a dominant food staple in Sub-Saharan Africa, but published gender …