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Southern African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing eight of the countries that make up southern Africa — Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe — and explores how climate...
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In developing countries across Asia, food marketing parastatals have played an important role in agricultural policy, especially with regard to government efforts to stabilize food prices. Three broad market failures constitute the primary arguments for this form of government intervention: a...
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crops: barley, maize, teff, and wheat. Since maize is the only crop that exhibits considerable adoption of improved seed, we …
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This study examines the existing status, policies, and institutions for promoting agricultural output in Nepal, in … agricultural output marketing and procurement of food grains in Nepal. …
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/05 to 2008/09, prices of major cereals (teff, maize, wheat and sorghum) have fluctuated sharply in both nominal and real … staples, only wheat is imported or exported on a significant scale. And frequent changes in trade and macro-economic policies … imports of wheat. From July 2005 to March 2007, private sector wheat imports were profitable and domestic wheat prices closely …
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projection is then used to estimate the levels of wheat and rice produced for 2009–2030, with the projections of the exogenous … determinants of production based on linear time trend models. The results show that the demand for wheat and rice will more than … double by 2030. The projections of supply show an increase in the output of wheat and rice by 2030. From 2008 to 2030, the …
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production. In view of the importance of wheat and rice in the human diet in Pakistan, it is extremely important to estimate the …
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Beginning in April 2008, lack of access to foreign exchange effectively stopped private sector wheat imports … lowered market wheat prices, though market prices remained above import parity levels. Allowing the private sector access to … foreign exchange for wheat imports (or auctioning government wheat imports of the same volume) would have eliminated the wheat …
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The study estimates a conditional mean model for international wheat prices and inventories. Endogenous price … optimization problem. The data suggest that the price of both wheat and wheat inventories is nonstationary and that they are …
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