This report is intended to provide an indepth trade area analysis of Grafton, North Dakota. Specific analyses included determining Grafton's main and greater trade areas, identifying the demographic profile of Grafton shoppers, examining important and less important services for patron shoppers...

This report is intended to provide an indepth trade area analysis of Bowman, North Dakota. Specific analyses included determining Bowman's main and greater trade areas, identifying the demographic profile of Bowman shoppers, examining important and less important services for patron shoppers of...

This report is intended to provide an indepth trade area analysis of Lisbon, North Dakota. Specific analyses included determining Lisbon's main and greater trade areas, identifying the demographic profile of Lisbon shoppers, examining important and less important services for patron shoppers of...

This report is intended to provide an indepth trade area analysis of Mayville-Portland, North Dakota. Specific analyses included determining Mayville-Portland's main and greater trade areas, identifying the demographic profile of Mayville-Portland shoppers, examining important and less important...

When food prices shoot over import parity, this often leads to social and political unrest and even the toppling of governments. If markets behaved efficiently and in the absence of trade barriers, food prices should not exceed the price in world markets plus the cost of importing it to domestic...

This paper traces the trajectories of successful commercial smallholders operating under differing sets of market institutions. Analysis focuses on maize, cotton, and horticulture, three widely marketed crops with strikingly different market institutions. Maize receives intensive government...

Rapid growth in urban populations and renewed growth in per capita incomes in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are creating major opportunities for local farmers by driving rapid growth in domestic market demand for food. At the same time, these trends plus rising income are putting enormous stress on...

Daily quantities of tomato, rape and onion entering Soweto market in Lusaka fluctuate dramatically. The market does a remarkable job of moderating the impact on prices of these unstable quantities, through stabilizing mechanisms such as short-term storage of tomato and rape by traders and...