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| Ba, Moussa Batchily; Staatz, John M.; Farrelly, Laura L.; Camara, Youssouf; Dimithe, Georges. |
| At the initiative of USAID, the ADB, MSU, and INSAH, 40 researchers, policy makers and private-sector entrepreneurs from 19 countries, representing 20 African and international organizations, met in Abidjan for a continent-wide workshop to debate issues related to transformation of African agriculture. The Abidjan workshop built on previous discussions organized by Winrock International, the World Bank, USAID (AFR/SD/PSGE/FSP) and IFPRI concerning the key challenges (food insecurity, poverty, and environmental degradation) that need to be addressed while fostering a structural transformation of African agriculture. |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Agricultural transformation; Africa; International Development; Downloads July 2008-July 2009: 20; R11. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54668 |
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| De Groote, Hugo; Kimenju, Simon Chege; Owuor, George; Wanyama, Japheter. |
| This study analyses the impact of the liberalization on the intensification of maize production in Kenya. It first analyses the impact of liberalization on input and output prices, followed by an analysis of farmer practices comparing two major farmer surveys, from 1992 and 2002. The results show that liberalization has had a general positive impact on the evolution of prices, with a decrease of input/output price ratios. However, fluctuations of maize prices has become very high and, combined with a decrease of marketing by the marketing board, has increased the uncertainty in maize production. The liberalization has also resulted in a decrease in extension services. Fortunately, farmers have an increased access to credit services. The combined effect of... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Liberalization; Intensification; Adoption; Maize; Africa; International Development; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25419 |
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| Sitko, Nicholas J.; Jayne, Thomas S.. |
| The development of agricultural commodity exchanges in Africa has become an increasingly popular strategy for addressing some of the ills plaguing African food markets, including poorly developed risk management systems, high transaction costs, and limited price discovery. However, despite substantial support from donors and, in some cases, national governments, commodity exchanges in most African countries are having difficulties getting off the ground. While previous studies (Rashid, Winter-Nelson, and Garcia 2010) highlight the fact that low trade volumes passing through African commodity exchanges limit their development, the question of why exchanges are thinly traded remains poorly understood. Using the Zambian Agricultural Commodity Exchange... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Africa; Commodity exchange; ZAMACE; Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/107461 |
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| Maas, Sarah; Matthews, Alan. |
| This paper examines the performance of African agri-food exports to the EU market over the first decade of the new millennium. The EU is Africa’s single largest export market absorbing just half of all African agri-food exports. Countries are grouped according to the preferential trade regime they enjoy to enter the EU market: North African countries under EuroMed agreements; least developed African countries under the Everything but Arms arrangement; other African countries under the Cotonou Agreement; and South Africa under its Trade, Development and Cooperation Agreement. Despite these preferences, Africa appears to be losing market share. A shift-share analysis confirms that, with the exception of the African Mediterranean countries, the... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Africa; EU; Agricultural exports; Market access; Preference agreements; Food Security and Poverty; F14; Q17. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/114664 |
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| Smith, Lisa C.; Alderman, Harold; Aduayom, Dede. |
| Reducing food insecurity in the developing world continues to be a major public policy challenge, and one that is complicated by lack of information on the location, severity, and causes of food insecurity. Such information is needed to properly target assistance, evaluate whether progress is achieved, and develop appropriate interventions to help those in need. This research report explores a new method of measuring food insecurity using food data collected as part of household expenditure surveys. Such surveys are routinely undertaken by numerous national governments throughout the developing world, but in the past the resulting food data remained largely unexploited for the purposes of measuring food insecurity. Using data from 12 Sub-Saharan African... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food supply; Africa; Sub-Saharan; Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37885 |
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| Walter, Teresa; Kloos, Julia; Tsegai, Daniel W.. |
| With the political changes in South Africa in the early 1990s, the South African government introduced a reform process in the entire water sector with the goal of a more enhanced and equitable water management system. This paper analyzes existing water allocation situations and applies a nonlinear optimization model to investigate the optimal intra- and inter-regional allocations in the Middle Olifants sub-basin of South Africa. Results show higher benefit from inter-regional water allocation. Reducing water supply levels to conform to the sustainable water supply policy, it can be shown that although water supply is reduced by approximately 50%, total benefits from water are only reduced by 5% and 11% for inter- and intra-regional allocation regimes... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Water allocation; IWRM; Olifants basin; South Africa; Africa; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/97035 |
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