Price transmission studies have become increasingly important in sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) over the last two decades because of their application in assessing the impact of market reforms policies embarked upon by the region’s governments between the mid 1980s and early 1990s. In this study, a...

Fruits and vegetables are an important source of nutrients for a large number of Kenyans, as well as major earners of foreign exchange, and are commonly grown crop among smallholder farmers, who often sell them for cash. Little is known, however, about the structure of domestic demand for fruits...

L’objectif de l’étude est d’évaluer l’impact de l’utilisation des Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (TIC) sur la formation du prix et les coûts de commercialisation du riz local au Bénin. Trois TIC ont été concernées : le téléphone portable, la radio et la...

Dairy is a key investment sector for the Government of Malawi. Advocacy institutions operating in the country have successfully lobbied for increasing the duty applied for powder milk, with the aim of improving the price received by farmers. It should be noted that whilst an increase of the...

The paper provides a regional estimate of rice yield and acreage supply response to prices, which reflect respectively, long and short-terms production (or farming) decision variables for rice supply in West Africa. Using pooled time series cum panel data from seven countries covering 1991-2006...

The first difference Almost Ideal Demand System is used to estimate the Ivorian rice import demand differentiated by sources and qualities. Research findings showed that the import demand of rice for all qualities and sources in Cote d’Ivoire is inelastic. Expenditure elasticities reveal that...

Understanding how producers make decisions to allot acreage among crops and how decisions about land use are affected by changes in prices and their volatility is fundamental for predicting the supply of staple crops and, hence, assessing the global food supply situation. The innovations of the...

An important hypothesized benefit of large-scale input subsidy programs in Africa is that by raising maize production, the subsidies should put downward pressure on retail maize prices to the benefit of urban consumers and the rural poor who tend to be net food buyers. To inform debates related...

The aim of this study was to analyze palm oil prices in Ini Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. Palm oil is a major agricultural commodity that is highly commercialized in the Nigeria and has suffered various economic impacts cardinally is the price volatility. In consideration of...