China's 10-year old wheat futures market, the China Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange (CZCE) has been in stable development since establishment and is expected to be integrated to the world market after China joined WTO. This paper compares the price behavior of CZCE with that of the Chicago Board of...

This study examines the long run relationship between 1-day and 3-month futures prices for five metals at the London Metal Exchange (LME) and further investigates the role of interest rates in this relationship. A battery of stationarity tests and cointegration tests are applied to a simple cost...

The primary objective of this study was to assess the impact of catfish imports and tariffs on the U.S. catfish industry, with particular focus on the U.S. International Trade Commission ruling on Vietnam in 2003. Given the importance of Vietnam to the U.S. catfish market, it was assumed that...

This study uses a rich dataset of 85 market pairs between January 2000 andOctober 2008 for Kenya, Tanzanian and Uganda, the three largest member countries ofthe East Africa Community, to analyze the factors determining national and cross-nationalmaize price transmission. Although the three...

Deficiencies of micronutrients such as vitamin A are widespread, expecially in Africa.Biofortified crops such as maize, bred for high levels of provitamin A might offer a solution, butthese crops are often bright orange, and African maize consumers prefer white. To estimate theconsumers interest...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the sensory characteristics and consumer acceptability of qualityprotein maize (QPM) in rural Tanzania. Due to the malnutrition problem facing consumers in developing countries,QPM which has almost double the amount of tryptophan and lysine, has been...

This paper analyses the economics of biofuel production and the implications that the accelerating growth in biofuel production in many countries could have on agricultural markets. It shows that production costs of ethanol and biodiesel differ significantly across countries and feedstock crops....

We assess market integration and price transmission of perishableagricultural produce in Sub-Saharan Africa by studying Ghanaian tomato marketswhich are characterized by pronounced seasonality in production and trade flows.We analyse the tomato markets of Ghana by simultaneously regarding its...

This paper identifies and synthesises strategic opportunities and challenges facing New Zealand’s sheep meat and beef sector over the next 10 to 15 years. A Delphi surveydraws on the sector’s collective knowledge and identifies areas of consensus anddivergence of opinion. Using the results...

In most urban cities across Australia, water restrictions remain the dominant policymechanism to restrict urban water consumption. The extensive adoption of waterrestrictions over several years means that Australian urban water prices have consistently not reflected the opportunity cost of water...