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Provedor de dados: 	31	
País: 	United States	
Título: 	The Role of ICT-based Market Information Services in Spatial Food Market Integration: The Case of Malawi Agricultural Commodity Exchange	
Autores: 	Katengeza,   Samson P.; Mangisoni,   Julius H.; Okello,   Julius Juma.	
Data: 	2010-11-03	
Ano: 	2010	
Palavras-chave: 	ICT-based intervention; Market information service; Market integration; Rice; Malawi; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies.	
Resumo: 	The government of Malawi in 2004 initiated an ICT-based Malawi Agricultural Commodity Exchange (MACE), a market information service project, to improve access by farmers to market information. MACE was intended to improve the efficiency of agricultural markets as part of the strategy to improve food security. This study uses quantitative methods to examine whether MACE has contributed to efficiency of rice markets in Malawi. It especially tests if MACE has contributed to spatial integration of rice markets. As hypothesized, the study finds that the tendency of rice prices to move together in spatially separated markets has significantly increased since the implementation of MACE. It concludes that ICT-based market information services improve the efficiency with which agricultural markets perform. The study discusses implications of this finding for policy.	
Tipo: 	Journal Article	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	http://purl.umn.edu/96170	
Relação: 	African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE)&gt;2010 AAAE Third Conference/AEASA 48th Conference, September 19-23, 2010, Cape Town, South Africa	
Formato: 	18