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| Tschirley, David L.; Zulu, Ballard; Shaffer, James D.. |
| This paper grows out of earlier work on cotton by the Food Security Research Project. It is directed towards policy makers and private stakeholders in Zambia’s cotton sector, and has four main purposes: (a) To provide a detailed descriptive overview of the organization of the sector and of the behavior of key public and private participants in the sector; (b) To assess cotton’s role in smallholder livelihood strategies, and its competitiveness at the farm level with a key alternative crop–maize; (c) To critically evaluate recent policy initiatives in the sector and suggest key modifications that might be needed; and (d) To identify the primary challenges that the sector faces to ensure its future competitiveness in regional and international... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Zambia; Cotton; Smallholder livelihood; Crop Production/Industries; Q18. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54467 |
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| Kabwe, Stephen; Tschirley, David L.. |
| 1. Smallholder farmers in Africa require reliable access to purchased production inputs and credit to take advantage of export opportunities from production of cotton. 2. Unregulated and poorly coordinated markets for cotton, production inputs and credit have too often failed to deliver sustainable production finance to farmers for cotton production resulting in a variety of different approaches to these problems among African countries. 3. Among the countries studied, approaches have varied from State monopolies to private markets with several large firms managing to achieve temporary duopolies. 4. Zambia has been relatively successful in dealing with the input-credit needs of cotton farmers for periods of time but the system has been unsustainable,... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Zambia; Cotton; Crop Production/Industries; Q20. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54635 |
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| Jayne, Thomas S.; Rubey, Lawrence; Tschirley, David L.; Mukumbu, Mulinge; Chisvo, Munhamo; Santos, Ana Paula; Weber, Michael T.; Diskin, Patrick K.. |
| This report analyzes the effects of grain market reform and food subsidy elimination in Eastern and Southern Africa on access to food for low-income consumers. The report also assesses the potential to use "self-targeted commodities" to improve vulnerable groups access to food though market development strategies and food aid programs. While much research has been devoted to understanding how producers and traders would respond to reform of staple food markets, relatively little is known about the potential or actual responses by consumers. The report presents recent findings from six household-level surveys in urban areas of Zimbabwe, Kenya, Zambia, and Mozambique between 1991 and 1994. Secondary data from South Africa and Malawi are also presented where... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty; Marketing; Downloads July 2008 - June 2009: 12. |
| Ano: 1995 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54052 |
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| Tschirley, David L.. |
| To many people, futures trading is a little understood and rather suspicious activity. The word most often associated with this trading is "speculation", the idea being that most of those involved in futures markets are gamblers in a high stakes game seeking profit at the expense of those outside the game. Any relationship between futures markets and cash markets is generally seen in a negative light - futures trading causing "speculative booms" which distort cash markets and harm many honest traders not directly involved in futures. The idea that futures trading might be a valuable risk management tool for farmers, processors, and other market participants is generally neither understood nor readily accepted. This paper is directed toward... |
| Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation |
Palavras-chave: Marketing; Risk and Uncertainty. |
| Ano: 1987 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11093 |
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| Donovan, Cynthia; McGlinchy, Megan; Staatz, John M.; Tschirley, David L.. |
| This desk study is designed to assist WFP and other humanitarian agencies in understanding markets as they relate to emergencies, particularly the assessment of the impacts of emergencies and food aid deliveries on local commodity markets. In this work, we will focus on the impact of actual food commodity distribution on commodity markets, one of the most common emergency response alternatives. However, the report widens the debate to assist humanitarian agencies in seeing the link between actions taken by and with households and individuals during and after an emergency, the effects those actions have on markets, but also effects that market structure and performance may have in mitigating food insecurity. |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Food aid; Food Security and Poverty; Q18. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54566 |
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| Tschirley, David L.; Staatz, John M.; Donovan, Cynthia. |
| When an emergency occurs, agencies must make quick decisions on how to help people facing severe food insecurity. This paper addresses the challenges of designing appropriate responses that are linked to identified needs of affected households and individuals. The primary goal of any response is to save lives now and protect the food security of households and individuals now and in the future. However, instrumental goals and the specific means of achieving them are varied, and must be responsive to the setting in which the emergency occurs. The paper conceives the costs and benefits of a response as the product of how efficiently a resource is delivered (resource transfer efficiency) and the effectiveness of the resource and its mode of delivery in... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Africa; Food security; Food policy; Food aid; Emergency response; Food Security and Poverty; Q18. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54561 |
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