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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Zambian Smallholder Behavioral Responses To Food Reserve Agency Activities
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| Autores: |
Mason, Nicole M.
Jayne, Thomas S.
Myers, Robert J.
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| Data: |
2012-02-16
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| Ano: |
2011
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| Palavras-chave: |
Zambia
Food Security Smallholder
Agricultural and Food Policy
Food Security and Poverty
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| Resumo: |
More than two decades after the initiation of agricultural market reforms in eastern and southern Africa (ESA), governments in the region are increasingly using parastatal grain marketing boards (GMBs) and/or strategic grain reserves (SGRs) to directly influence the prices faced by farmers and consumers. In Zambia, for example, the government through the Food Reserve Agency, a SGR/GMB, purchased nearly 400,000 metric tons (MT) of maize from smallholders in 2006/07 and 2007/08, or more than 50% of the maize marketed by this group. This marked a sharp increase in the level of FRA purchases: between its establishment in 1996 and the 2005/06 marketing year, FRA’s annual maize purchases only once exceeded 100,000 MT. Then in 2010/11, the FRA purchased more than 80% of expected smallholder marketed maize (878,570 MT).
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| Tipo: |
Working Paper
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://purl.umn.edu/120768
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| Relação: |
Michigan State University>Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics>Food Security Collaborative Working Papers
Working Papers
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| Formato: |
48
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