This study surveys the empirical record of grain marketing and pricing policy in selected Eastern and Southern Africa countries. The paper addresses five key issues with major implications for food policy in Africa: (a) why the anticipated supply response to market liberalization has not yet...

In its 1986 study of poverty and hunger, the World Bank defined food security as “assess by all people at all times to enough food for active and healthy life.” Based on this definition, about a quarter of Africa’s population or more than 100 million people are food insecure, i.e., do not...

This report summarizes the results of the USAID-sponsored Beyond Mindelo conference on food security policy and the competitiveness of agriculture in the Sahel.

This report is a synthesis of views presented at the Confronting the Silent Challenge of Hunger USAID Conference, June 28-29, 1994. The purposes of the conference were to provide information to assist AID in defining and articulating its development strategy related to agriculture and food...

Institute of Agricultural Research of Mozambique Directorate of Training, Documentation, and Technology Transfer

The major objective of this study was to assess the performance of grain markets in Ethiopia at the individual market levels and for groups of markets which are spatially linked. By examining the nature of relationships among producer, wholesale, and retail prices in individual markets and among...

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Directorate of Economics, Republic of Mozambique

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Directorate of Economics, Republic of Mozambique

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Directorate of Economics, Republic of Mozambique