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| Rohrbach, David D.; Low, Jan W.; Pitoro, Raul; Cucu, Alfredo; Massingue, Jaquelino; Boughton, Duncan; Rafael, Guilhermina; Paulo, Antonio M.; Jocene, Domingos. |
| Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Directorate of Economics, Republic of Mozambique |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Mozambique; Crop Production/Industries; Q18. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56048 |
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| Tschirley, David L.; Jayne, Thomas S.. |
| Concern about humanitarian crises in southern Africa, especially in light of the surge in world food prices since 2007, has been accompanied by calls for direct government action in food markets. This paper reviews how Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique handled private food markets during the food crises of 2001/02, 2002/03, and 2005/06, which may provide important lessons for the management of future crises. Lack of trust between government and traders can lead to behavior that undermines the interests of each and harms consumers and farmers; Malawi and Zambia have persistently fallen into this trap while Mozambique has partially avoided it. Empirical policy analysis can make an important contribution to resolution only within a consultative process involving... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Southern Africa; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Markets; Emergency response; Trust; Food Security and Poverty; Q18. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54559 |
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| Boughton, Duncan; Tschirley, David L.; Zulu, Ballard; Ofico, Afonso Osorio; de Marrule, Higino Francisco. |
| Cotton is one of the most important smallholder cash crops in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). How to ensure input supply, credit recovery and competition is a subject of intense policy debate. This paper examines the performance of cotton sector development policies in Mozambique and Zambia. Both countries face the challenge of organizing input supply to farmers in the absence of rural credit markets, and competing in international markets distorted by production subsidies in developed countries. Both countries privatized cotton ginning in the 1990s. Emerging from civil war, Mozambique established geographical monopolies to interlink input and output markets and facilitate credit recovery. In Zambia, the government completely liberalized the cotton sector,... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Cotton; Mozambique; Zambia; Liberalization; Agricultural policy; Agricultural and Food Policy; Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25855 |
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