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Patterns and Trends in Food Staples Markets in Eastern and Southern Africa: Toward the Identification of Priority Investments and Strategies for Developing Markets and Promoting Sm...
Jayne, Thomas S.; Mason, Nicole M.; Myers, Robert J.; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2010
on smallholder crop marketing behavior and urban consumption patterns in Eastern and Southern Africa, and their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530523
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Are Staple Foods Becoming More Expensive For Urban Consumers In Eastern And Southern Africa? Trends in Food Prices, Marketing Margins, and Wage Rates in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique,...
Mason, Nicole M.; Jayne, Thomas S.; Donovan, Cynthia; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009
Africa. This study investigates patterns in staple food prices, wage rates, and marketing margins for urban consumers in … 2008/09 marketing season were still roughly double their levels of the mid-1990s. The national minimum wage in Mozambique …/07 marketing seasons, respectively. During the 2008/09 marketing season, Maputo minimum wage earners’ rice and wheat flour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530524
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Wheat Consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa: Trends, Drivers, and Policy Implications
Mason, Nicole M.; Jayne, Thomas S.; Shiferaw, Bekele A. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2012
Wheat consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is increasing rapidly, faster than any other major food grain. Between 2000 and 2009, per capita wheat consumption in SSA increased at a rate of 0.35 kilogram (kg)/year, outpacing maize and rice. Total wheat consumption increased by nearly 650,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878900
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Malawi’s Maize Marketing System
Jayne, Thomas S.; Sitko, Nicholas J.; Ricker-Gilbert, Jacob - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2010
marketing margins, which shrink the wedge between producer and consumer prices. Moreover, Malawi faces major political and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530558
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Unpacking the Meaning of “Market Access”
Chamberlin, Jordan; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2011
Improving farmers’ access to markets is widely recognized as a major development challenge. A review of the literature suggests that indicators of market access may bear little relationship to the specific processes of interest and hence provide misguided evidence of the impacts of improved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220404
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Has Kenyan Farmers’ Access to Markets and Services Improved? Panel Survey Evidence, 1997-2007
Chamberlin, Jordan; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009
This report uses panel data on 1,267 smallholder households to monitor changes in their access to markets and services. We find that Kenyan smallholders’ proximity to infrastructure, markets, and services has improved markedly over the last decade. These improvements, however, have not been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008457046
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Agricultural Trade Flows among Developing Countries: Do Regional Preferential Trade Agreements make a Difference?
Tembo, Gelson; Jayne, Thomas S. - 2009
implementation and individual countries’ production and marketing costs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444855
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Agricultural Trade Flows among Developing Countries: Do Regional Preferential Trade Agreements make a Difference?
Tembo, Gelson; Jayne, Thomas S. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
implementation and individual countries’ production and marketing costs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010913355
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Who Gained and Who Lost from Zambia's 2010 Maize Marketing Policies?
Nkonde, Chewe; Mason, Nicole M.; Sitko, Nicholas J.; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2011
benefited from the bumper crop and FRA‟s involvement in maize marketing. The FRA‟s high buy price and purchase of nearly 900 … key features of the 2010/11 GRZ maize marketing policies and their likely income distributional effects on various …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836222
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The Impact of State Marketing Board Operations on Smallholder Behavior and Incomes: The Case of Kenya
Mather, David; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2011
Despite the resurgence of parastatal marketing boards and strategic grain reserves over the last decade in eastern and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653666