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| Hichaambwa, Munguzwe; Tschirley, David L.. |
| The proportion of smallholder households selling horticultural produce is very low suggesting that new demand points could enjoy substantial supply response if they link effectively to the smallholder sector. The small-scale traditional marketing system continues to dominate fresh produce flows in the country. Prices for consumers in this system are much lower, and quality is comparable and sometimes superior to supermarkets. Yet these markets suffer from serious structural problems due to a lack of public investment and little collaboration between public officials and traders in market management. The Urban Markets Development Program represents a major and impressive effort to improve wholesale and retail markets in the country, but has run into... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Zambia; Horticulture; Crop Production/Industries; Q18. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54621 |
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| Tschirley, David L.; Kabwe, Stephen. |
| Cotton is one unquestioned success of Zambia’s turn towards a market economy. After liberalization in late 1994, production rose from 20,000 mt to over 100,000 mt in the 1998 harvest year. After collapsing to less than 50,000 mt in 2000, it has risen steadily, nearing 200,000 mt in 2005. Over 2002-2005, exports of cotton lint were first among all agricultural exports in value, 30% higher than any other agricultural export (Export Board of Zambia 2006). The closest competitor to cotton during this time –raw cane sugar –is primarily produced on large operations, while cotton is almost entirely a smallholder crop. Its potential role in poverty alleviation and food security is, thus, very large. The success of this sector has been achieved despite persistent... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Policy; Zambia; Africa; Cotton; Crop Production/Industries; Q18. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54485 |
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| Tschirley, David L.; del Castillo, Anne Marie. |
| This report discusses the potential for procurement of food aid in local/regional markets to improve the effectiveness of response to food emergency victims. The paper examines the relevance of local/regional procurement (LRP) to donors and the rationale for using it, reviews LRP’s efficiency relative to in-kind food aid and to local prices in the markets in which it occurs (focusing on Africa), proposes a classification of risks involved in LRP, discusses a range of potential LRP modalities, and closes by proposing a framework of guiding principles, information systems, and operational procedures for responsible and effective LRP. |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Africa; Food security; Food policy; Food aid; Food Security and Poverty; Q18. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54562 |
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| Tschirley, David L.; Hichaambwa, Munguzwe. |
| 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 the supply chains that these farmers rely on to respond to this increasing demand: demand for marketed food is likely to grow more than 5% per year on the continent, doubling marketed volumes in 12-14 years. Currently, fresh produce marketing systems are the biggest users of public marketing infrastructure, and have been most severely affected by the lack of investment in these systems across much of the continent. This lack of investment has led to an exploding... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Africa; Produce; Vegetable markets; Zambia; Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Security and Poverty; Marketing. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/93006 |
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| Tschirley, David L.; Ayieko, Miltone W.. |
| After reviewing trends in the production and marketing of fresh produce for the domestic market in Kenya since 1997, this paper presents detailed information on the structure of the flow of this produce from rural areas to wholesale markets in Nairobi and from those wholesale markets to assorted retail markets. Market shares are estimated by product for geographic areas supplying Nairobi, and for each important wholesale and retail market in the city. It is found that horticultural production for the domestic market is keeping up with rural population growth but not with the much faster urban population growth. The urban wholesaling and retailing system has decentralized dramatically and with little planning over the past two decades in response to lack of... |
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Palavras-chave: Africa; Horticulture; Market; Production; Crop Production/Industries; Q13. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55431 |
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| Tschirley, David L.; Kabwe, Stephen. |
| 1. Changes in spinning technology have increased the premium on high quality lint in the world market and increased the discount for lint contaminated with non-vegetative matter 2. The inherent characteristics of most African lint, plus the fact that it is hand-picked, should give it a substantial premium in the world market. However, because so much African lint is highly contaminated by world standards, much of it trades at a discount to Index A. 3. Zambia has been the outstanding success among a sample of nine SSA countries in improving quality; this achievement is directly attributable to the efforts of Dunavant and Cargill, made possible by company culture and by the concentrated structure of Zambia's industry 4. Quality (and input supply) can be... |
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Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Zambia; Cotton; Crop Production/Industries; Q20. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54632 |
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| Muendo, Kavoi Mutuku; Tschirley, David L.. |
| The specific objectives of this Volume are to: estimate the share of domestic FFV production going to international and domestic markets; determine the share of imports from Tanzania and Uganda in Kenya’s horticultural markets; investigate the competitiveness of Kenya’s horticultural produce in local and regional markets; determine the current and likely future share of key marketing channels in Kenya’s domestic FFV marketing system, especially “modern” channels such as supermarkets and more traditional channels such as open air markets and kiosks; and recommend steps that should be taken to place Kenya’s domestic horticulture in a position to compete favorably in local and regional markets. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food Security; Food Policy; Horticultural Production; Kenya; Crop Production/Industries; Q18. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55155 |
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| Tschirley, David L.; del Castillo, Anne Marie. |
| This report discusses the potential for procurement of food aid in local/regional markets to improve the effectiveness of response to food emergency victims. The paper examines the relevance of local/regional procurement (LRP) to donors and the rationale for using it, reviews LRP’s efficiency relative to in-kind food aid and to local prices in the markets in which it occurs (focusing on Africa), proposes a classification of risks involved in LRP, discusses a range of potential LRP modalities, and closes by proposing a framework of guiding principles, information systems, and operational procedures for responsible and effective LRP. |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Policy; Zambia; Africa; Food aid; Crop Production/Industries; Q18. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54486 |
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| Haggblade, Steven; Tschirley, David L.. |
| By law, US food aid relies on commodity procurement in the US. A powerful political coalition of US farm groups, shippers and relief agencies vigorously supports these in-kind food aid donation. As an alternative, local procurement of food aid, in Africa, has attracted growing interest because of its potential to reduce landed costs and speed delivery times. For this reason, many food aid donors, other than the US, have switched to local and regional procurement of food aid commodities. This paper reviews experience with local and regional food aid procurement in Zambia. The study focuses primarily on experience of the World Food Programme (WFP), the agency with the most extensive experience conducting local and regional procurement in Africa. WFP’s... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Policy; Zambia; Africa; Food aid; Crop Production/Industries; Q18. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54487 |
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