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Author : Anthony Mwanaumo
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (349 download)
Download or read book The Effects of Maize Marketing Policy Reforms in Zambia written by Anthony Mwanaumo and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Mwanaumo
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)
Download or read book A Spatial Analysis of Maize Marketing Policy Reforms in Zambia written by Anthony Mwanaumo and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study we analyze recent and proposed maize marketing reforms in Zambia. To capture the effects of changing transport systems, we use a continuous-space model in place of the traditional point-representation model of Takayama and Judge. This method permits us to use prereform data on supply, demand, and transport costs to infer both intra- and interregional effects of liberalization and shows that the welfare gains from liberalization are larger than commonly thought. These results provide policy makers with estimates of the magnitude of change associated with alternative reform programs, beyond what would be available from a conventional approach.
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 : Ann Harrison
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226318001
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Globalization and Poverty written by Ann Harrison and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, the percentage of the world’s population living on less than a dollar a day has been cut in half. How much of that improvement is because of—or in spite of—globalization? While anti-globalization activists mount loud critiques and the media report breathlessly on globalization’s perils and promises, economists have largely remained silent, in part because of an entrenched institutional divide between those who study poverty and those who study trade and finance. Globalization and Poverty bridges that gap, bringing together experts on both international trade and poverty to provide a detailed view of the effects of globalization on the poor in developing nations, answering such questions as: Do lower import tariffs improve the lives of the poor? Has increased financial integration led to more or less poverty? How have the poor fared during various currency crises? Does food aid hurt or help the poor? Poverty, the contributors show here, has been used as a popular and convenient catchphrase by parties on both sides of the globalization debate to further their respective arguments. Globalization and Poverty provides the more nuanced understanding necessary to move that debate beyond the slogans.
Author : F. Kapola Sipula
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Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Reforms of the Maize Market System in Zambia written by F. Kapola Sipula and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Klaus Abbink
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (931 download)
Download or read book The Relevance of a Rules-Based Maize Marketing Policy written by Klaus Abbink and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic interaction between public and private actors is increasingly recognized as an important determinant of agricultural market performance in Africa and elsewhere. Trust and consultation tend to positively affect private activity while uncertainty of government behavior impedes it. This paper reports on a laboratory experiment based on a stylized model of the Zambian maize market. The experiment facilitates a comparison between discretionary interventionism and a rules-based policy in which the government pre-commits itself to a future course of action. A simple precommitment rule can, in theory, overcome the prevailing strategic dilemma by encouraging private sector participation. Although this result is also borne out in the economic experiment, the improvement in private sector activity is surprisingly small and not statistically significant due to irrationally cautious choices by experimental governments. Encouragingly, a rules-based policy promotes a much more stable market outcome, thereby substantially reducing the risk of severe food shortages. These results underscore the importance of predictable and transparent rules for the state's involvement in agricultural markets.
Author : Matthias Zoephel
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 364090253X
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Governmental Deregulation in the Zambian Maize Sector written by Matthias Zoephel and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - Region: Africa, grade: 1,7, University of Hamburg, course: MSc Entrepreneurship, language: English, abstract: The following paper will indicate the interventions taken by the Zambian government in the Zambian maize sector. The agricultural sector in Zambia makes up 20 percent of the country’s GDP, employs 67 percent of Zambia’s total labor force and is the main source of livelihood for poor people in Zambia (Dixon et. al. 2001). The agricultural contribution to the GDP is mainly attributed by rural small-scale farmers who make up 90 percent of all Zambian farmers and own nearly about two thirds of the agricultural land (OECD 2009). More than 70 percent of the entire agricultural area planted is under maize. Since agriculture contributes to the GDP to such a great extend and maize is by far the greatest crop planted, the performance of the maize sector is a very decisive indicator of how well Zambia is economically doing. Further, poverty is mainly existent in rural areas and as rural small-scale farmers make up almost the entire output of maize, maize is thus also an important indicator of rural poverty. The maize sector is at the same time the most deregulated sector in Zambia with a deregulation percentage of greater than 80 percent. Maize policies affect a large percentage of the population and policies can and are used to provide the government with strategic advantages for self-interest independent of whether such policies have a positive impact on the in highly poverty living rural population. This research paper will first examine in section two how maize became such a powerful crop by looking back into Zambian history. Section three will explain the deregulation policies that are currently in place in detail before section four will give an outlook into the future where the maize sector is heading to, accompanied with suggestion in how the maize sector must change in order to contribute to poverty reduction on a sustainable base. Section five will summaries and conclude this report.
Author : Weltbank
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (931 download)
Download or read book Zambia - The Relevance of a Rules-Based Maize Marketing Policy written by Weltbank and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical barrier to achieving food security and rural income growth in the mixed food marketing systems characterizing many Eastern and Southern African countries revolves around the way that governments and the private sector interact. In shortage years, governments may question the capacity of the private sector to import maize, and thus arrange imports on their own to cover the shortfall. At the same time, traders' import decisions depend on their expectations regarding governments' response to food shortages. Social dilemmas can arise if traders are uncertain about future government behavior or lack trust in official announcements. This paper argues that well-functioning markets depend on transparent and predictable government behavior underpinned by mutual trust and cooperation. The authors report on an economic policy experiment based on a stylized model of the Zambian maize market. The experiment facilitates a comparison between the current government policy of discretionary interventionism and a rules-based policy in which the government precommits itself to a future course of action. A simple precommitment rule can overcome the social dilemma by reducing the risk of food crises and provide appropriate incentives for private traders' participation in the market, thereby enhancing economic efficiency. Exploring mechanisms that can support more predictable and rules-based policy responses to food shortages may therefore be beneficial to the Government of Zambia and to other governments in the region.
Author : Oliver S. Saasa
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Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Policy Reforms and Structural Adjustment in Zambia, with Emphasis on Agriculture and Trade written by Oliver S. Saasa and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wesley Weidemann
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Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Zambian Agricultural Sector Policy Impact Assessment written by Wesley Weidemann and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kherallah, Mylene
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 : 0801871980
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Reforming agricultural markets in Africa written by Kherallah, Mylene and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-term reduction of hunger and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa remains one of the great challenges for the international development community. Eliminating hunger and promoting widespread growth in the region inevitably involves agriculture, given its central role in the regions economies. Over the past 20 years, most African governments have carried out reforms to deregulate agricultural markets and reduce the role of state enterprises. How much has the state actually withdrawn from agricultural markets? Have well-functioning private markets emerged? How successful were these reforms in boosting agricultural production, economic growth, and the incomes of the rural poor? What lessons can we learn from the reform process? The authors of this book address these questions through an analysis based on an extensive review of experiences with reform, focusing on three major agricultural markets: fertilizer, food crops, and export crops. They examine the historical rationales for intervention, the factors contributing to reform, the process of implementation, and the impact of the reforms on farmers and consumers in Sub-Saharan Africa. The authors find that reforms have had many favorable results, but that the impact has been muted by partial implementation and structural constraints. They propose a new agenda for promoting the development of agricultural markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, identifying areas where governments can play a supportive role. They argue that appropriate agricultural marketing policies and investments can improve livelihoods and the economic health of the region.
Author : Dennis Chiwele
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN 13 : 9789171064363
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (643 download)
Download or read book Private Sector Response to Agricultural Marketing Liberalization in Zambia written by Dennis Chiwele and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 1998 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines the efficacy of the agricultural sector reforms that have been implemented in Zambia since 1991/92 when the MMD government of Fred Chiluba was elected to office. On the basis of empirical material gathered in the field, the report demonstrates the limitations of the reform and identifies a number of constraints that have hampered the private sector and made the agricultural marketing system remain relatively underdeveloped.
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Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Zambia the Relevance of a Rules-based Maize Marketing Policy written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adrian P. Wood
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Dynamics of Agricultural Policy and Reform in Zambia written by Adrian P. Wood and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1990 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Zambia. Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries
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Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (441 download)
Download or read book Market Liberalization Impact Studies written by Zambia. Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mylène Kherallah
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 : 0896295257
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (962 download)
Download or read book The Road Half Traveled written by Mylène Kherallah and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2000 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The need for agricultural reform; How far did reforms go? Impact of the reforms; The future of agricultural market reform in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Author : Ochieng, Dennis O.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
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.
