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Author : Kay Muir
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Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Agricultural Marketing and Price Policy in Malawi written by Kay Muir and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 14 pages
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Download or read book Agricultural Marketing and Price Policy in Malawi written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alberto Valdés
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 : 0896293270
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Agricultural policy reforms and regional market integration in Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe written by Alberto Valdés and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General policy environment; Current status of and reform proposals for agriculture; Effects of domestic policy reforms on food security; Potential for intraregional trade.
Author : Duchoslav, Jan
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Total Pages : 4 pages
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Download or read book Regulation of agricultural markets in Malawi written by Duchoslav, Jan and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agriculture holds special significance in Malawi, because most Malawian households depend primarily on this sector for income and food security. Therefore, legislation surrounding the agricultural sector, and the foundation it lays for the sector’s governance, are fundamental to the development prospects of the country. At their best, agricultural laws encourage farmers, traders (both domestic and international), and processors of agricultural commodities to fully engage and further invest in the agricultural sector. At their worst, they undermine confidence to do so
Author : Comstock, Andrew
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Total Pages : 76 pages
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Download or read book A critical review of Malawi’s Special Crops Act and Agriculture (General Purposes) Act written by Comstock, Andrew and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is a critical review of two of the principal agricultural laws in Malawi, the Special Crops Act and the Agriculture (General Purposes) Act. Both are frequently used to justify interventions by government in agricultural marketing and trade activities. The review is to assess whether this legislation is effective in promoting the goals of the country around agricultural commercialization, and if not, to provide recommendations for revisions to the laws. As a secondary task, the review considers whether either law could be used as an appropriate legal framework for contract farming regulation and oversight. The review was based on a thorough desk review of the legislation and interviews with over 230 key informants involved in agricultural production, marketing, and trade. The interviews focused on the laws and how their application by government has affected the commercial activities of the informants for better or for worse.
Author : Baulch, Bob
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Total Pages : 5 pages
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Download or read book Can a maize price band work in Malawi? written by Baulch, Bob and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Price band schemes have been used in many countries to try and set minimum and maximum prices between which staple food prices vary. This is typically done using a buffer stock scheme, which sells grain from a reserve when retail prices are higher than a pre-determined ceiling price and buys grain to store in the reserve when prices fall below a pre-determined floor price. Malawi has attempted to stabilize the price of its main staple, maize, for many years. Since 1999, this has been the dual responsibility of the National Food Reserve Agency (NFRA), which manages the nation’s Strategic Grain Reserve, and the Agricultural Marketing and Development Corporation (ADMARC), an agricultural marketing parastatal with an extensive network of depots and warehouses throughout the country. The precise division of responsibilities for maize price stabilization between the NFRA and ADMARC is unclear, although it is ADMARC which has the mandate to buy from farmers and sell to consumers while NFRA’s principal role is to manage the Strategic Grain Reserve. This note updates previous IFPRI analysis which examined, based on historical maize prices, how often ADMARC would need to intervene in different markets to defend a plausible range of ceiling and floor prices. The floor price corresponds to the minimum farmgate price announced by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MoAFS) at the beginning of each harvest season while the ceiling price corresponds to the sales price of maize at ADMARC depots. The price band is then the gap between the floor and ceiling price. To defend a set floor price, ADMARC would need to buy off any excess supply on the market, thereby creating an upward pressure on maize prices. Conversely, to ensure the ceiling prices are not exceeded, the NFRA would need to release maize for ADMARC to sell on the market to create a downward pressure and bring the prices down to the ceiling price. International experience indicates that defending floor/ceiling prices in all circumstances is a very expensive proposition.
Author : Dieter Elz
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Total Pages : 160 pages
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Download or read book Agricultural Marketing Strategy and Pricing Policy written by Dieter Elz and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ochieng, Dennis O.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Total Pages : 4 pages
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Download or read book Market information and access to structured markets by small farmers and traders: Evidence from an action research experiment in Central Malawi: Synopsis written by Ochieng, Dennis O. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Structured markets are organized platforms where economic agents such as farmers, traders, processors and financial institutions enter transparent and legal trading and financial arrangements (East Africa Grain Council 2013). Structured markets are important for the stabilization of volumes and prices of agricultural commodities (Hernandez et al. 2017) and diversification of foreign exchange earnings (Edelman et al. 2014). If supported by export mandates, structured markets for cereals and legumes could also limit informal cross-border trade and increase agricultural exports (Government of Malawi 2016). They could potentially also provide better statistics on volumes traded to aid in the planning, production, and marketing of crops in Malawi (Baulch and Gondwe 2017).
Author : Robert E. Christiansen
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Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Agricultural Pricing and Marketing Policy in Malawi written by Robert E. Christiansen and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ochieng, Dennis O.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Total Pages : 63 pages
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Download or read book Structure, conduct and performance of maize markets in Malawi written by Ochieng, Dennis O. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seasonal analysis of the structure, conduct, and performance (SCP) of markets for staple crops has received relatively little attention in food policy analysis yet it has important implications for food and nutrition security. This study employs a mixed methods approach to analyze the SCP of maize markets in Malawi in the 2018/19 main harvest and lean seasons. We interviewed 749 traders from 74 markets across 8 districts, held 28 focus group discussions (FGD) with a total of 480 farmers and analyzed daily and weekly price data from 13 regional markets. The structure of maize markets was explored by examining marketing channels, barriers to entry and the competitiveness of different tiers of the marketing chain. Inequality in sales revenues, switches in trader types between seasons, quality and weights standardization, and the behavior of traders were used to examine market conduct. Performance was assessed by examining traders’ costs and margins, and the spatial and temporal integration of maize markets. We find that Malawi’s maize market is pyramidal in structure and highly competitive at lower tiers of trade but ‘oligopolistic’ at higher tiers. The market channels vary across seasons with switches between trader types and instances of rural-urban trade reversals. There is considerable inequality of sales revenues among traders of similar capacities, and a widespread lack of structured trading despite existing institutions. A high ratio of marketing costs to revenue suggests marketing inefficiencies. Malawi maize prices were highly seasonal and more volatile than neighboring countries. In contrast to previous studies, our findings show weak spatial integration of markets and slow price adjustments to long-run equilibrium values even among short-distance market pairs. The study highlights five pathways to improving Malawi’s maize marketing system: (1) increased policy predictability to promote private-sector investment; (2) institutionalization of quality grades and standardization of weights and measures; (3) increased commercialization of smallholder maize production; (4) investment in enabling infrastructure; and (5) the promotion of structured trading.
Author : Leonidas Murembya
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Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Liberalization of Agricultural Pricing Policies in Malawi written by Leonidas Murembya and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wezzie S. Mtumbuka
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Total Pages : 16 pages
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Download or read book Spatial price integration among selected bean markets in Malawi written by Wezzie S. Mtumbuka and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research examines the extent of market integration among different bean markets across Malawi. Market integration is an indicator that efficiency exists within the flow of information between markets. The study focused on beans as they are a cheap source of protein affordable by the majority of rural smallholder farmers. Market price data for beans was obtained from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security and covered the period 1995 to 2011. The markets included in the study are Chitipa, Rumphi, Mzuzu, Lilongwe, Mitundu, Lizulu, Lunzu, Luchenza, and Bangula. Like prices of other agricultural crops, bean prices follow a general seasonal pattern, rising with increasing time since the last harvest and decreasing during the harvest period. Bean prices typically peak in December when bean supply to the market is low. The research results show that beans prices in different markets move in the same direction, meaning that the markets are co-integrated. However, price information is not fully transmitted between markets. Transaction costs were found to be higher in markets which are far away from major cities and in those markets serviced by poor roads. Based on the results, the study recommends the need to improve infrastructure and market information systems to enhance bean market efficiency in Malawi.
Author : Benson, Todd
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 : 0896294056
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Disentangling food security from subsistence agriculture in Malawi written by Benson, Todd and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ochieng, Dennis O.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Total Pages : 15 pages
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Download or read book Report on a study to crowdsource farmgate prices for maize and soybeans in Malawi written by Ochieng, Dennis O. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report summarizes the findings from an innovative study to collect the prices that farmers received for maize and soybeans during the 2020 main marketing season in Malawi. Between April and July, whenever they sold maize or soybeans, farmers were asked to report the prices they received by calling or texting a toll-free number managed by Farm Radio Trust. Reported prices were then compared to the minimum farmgate prices set by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security. Our findings show that 75 percent of maize farmers and 90 percent of soybean farmers sold their crops below the official minimum farmgate prices. On average, prices received by these farmers were approximately three-quarters of official minimum farmgate prices.
Author : Ochieng, Dennis O.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Total Pages : 27 pages
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Download or read book Market information and access to structured markets by small farmers and traders: Evidence from an action research experiment in central Malawi written by Ochieng, Dennis O. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small farmers and traders often lack the market information they need to earn the most from their crop sales. This paper analyzes the effects of an action research experiment in central Malawi, in which four groups of smallholder farmers were provided with maize and soybean price information from a local commodity exchange during the 2019 marketing season, while four other groups of smallholder farmers did not receive this information. Using data from a panel survey of 399 farmers and 78 traders conducted before and after the main marketing season and using kernel propensity score matching approach to account for possible differences between the treated and non-treated farmers, we estimate the effects of the intervention on a number of outcome indicators. A before versus after analysis was also employed to evaluate changes in traders’ marketing outcomes. We find positive but statistically insignificant effects on maize and soybean selling prices, sales through structured markets and levels of commercialization after the intervention. We also find a negative and statistically significant effect on the quantity of maize sold by farmers, suggesting paradoxically that providing farmers with price information reduced their sales volumes. The proportion of traders aware of structured markets and their share of sales through structured markets also increased significantly after the intervention. The quantity of maize sold by traders as well as the selling prices for maize and soy-bean also increased significantly, although this may be due to factors other than the intervention. The study concludes that provision of price information alone is not enough to facilitate small farmers’ and traders’ use of structured markets. Greater effort is needed to sensitize farmers and traders on the quality and quantity requirements as well as the operations of structured markets.
Author : Kay Muir
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Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Agricultural Marketing and Price Policy in Malawi written by Kay Muir and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Managing Agricultural Development in Africa (Organization)
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Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Agricultural Marketing and Pricing in Malawi written by Managing Agricultural Development in Africa (Organization) and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
