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| Boughton, Duncan; Crawford, Eric W.; Howard, Julie A.; Oehmke, James F.; Shaffer, James D.; Staatz, John M.. |
| Recent studies have shown that agricultural research can have high payoffs in Africa, but impact depends on how well technology fits with evolving needs and capacity in the agricultural sector and the rest of the economy. Structural adjustment policies (e.g., market liberalization, currency devaluation) and political change are transforming user demands for new technology and the economic environment in which technology must perform. The challenge is how to design agricultural research as a strategic input to promote broad-based economic growth, structural transformation, and food security in the increasingly market-driven, but fragile, economies of Africa. |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food Security; Food Policy; Agricultural Research; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; Downloads May 2008-July 2009: 44; Q18. |
| Ano: 1995 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54702 |
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| Wanzala, Maria N.; Jayne, Thomas S.; Staatz, John M.; Mugera, Amin W.; Kirimi, Justus; Owuor, Joseph. |
| The paper has several specific objectives. First, it identifies how fertilizer marketing costs and the types of fertilizers used have changed over the course of the liberalization process in Kenya. A second objective is to examine the fertilizer subsector in Kenya with a view to identifying organizational and institutional changes that could improve its performance. Various types of fertilizer supply chains serving farmers in western Kenya are identified, examine the cost structure of these supply chains, identify potential sources of cost reduction in these supply chains, and last, estimate the impact of illustrative scenarios for reducing fertilizer marketing costs on the profitability of maize production in western Kenya. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food Security; Food Policy; Kenya; Fertilizer; Crop Production/Industries; Q18. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55150 |
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| Diallo, Amadou Sekou. |
| In most developing countries, historically, the main strategy for improving the food sector has focused on increasing farm-level production. But in recent years, with the emphasis on value chain analysis, there has been much more focus on subsector studies, demand-driven approaches, and improving vertical coordination to assure product quality to final consumption markets. Millet, sorghum, and later rice were the traditional leading three cereal crops produced and consumed in Mali. Maize has trailed them for more than two decades, but from mid 1990s on, it has been produced and consumed in much larger quantities. Given the potentials of maize, developing and better organizing its subsector has the potential to not only increase revenues for maize farmers,... |
| Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation |
Palavras-chave: Maize; Value chain; Mali; Cereals; Food security; Agricultural marketing; Livestock feed; Industrial organization; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Security and Poverty; International Development; Marketing; L11-Production; Pricing; And Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms; N57-Africa; Oceania; O17-Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements; O33-Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes; Q12-Micro Analysis of Farm Firms; Farm Households; And Farm Input Markets; Q13-Agricultural Markets and Marketing; Cooperatives; Agribusiness; Q18-Agricultural Policy; Food Policy. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/101316 |
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| Nyoro, James K.; Kirimi, Lilian; Jayne, Thomas S.. |
| The purpose of this study is to assess the costs of maize production in Kenya and Uganda, starting from the fact that there is no single “cost of production” for maize. Cost of production varies according to region, the type of technology package employed, farmers’ management practices, and the weather. In light of this, the study disaggregates cost of production into seven region/technology categories, five in Kenya and two in eastern Uganda, in order to compare the relative competitiveness of maize among these regions and technology packages. Variations in cost of production within each region/technology category reflect differences in farmer management practices and micro-variability in soils and rainfall. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food Security; Food Policy; Kenya; Uganda; Maize Production; Crop Production/Industries; Q18. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55158 |
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| Tschirley, David L.; Mathenge, Mary K.. |
| This paper details the specific procedures utilized to develop the income proxy method for the USIAD/Kenya mission, reports on the performance of the method, and brings together in one place each part of the package needed to implement the method. The next section provides general background on income proxy methods; section III reports briefly on the Tegemeo/MSU Tampa full income survey that formed the basis for development of the proxy method; section IV provides details on model development, including definition of income components, the types of proxy variables tested, and the performance of the models; section V assesses model performance, and section VI touches on how the models can be used. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food Security; Food Policy; Income Proxy Model; Kenya; Food Security and Poverty; Q18. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55154 |
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| Tschirley, David L.; Mathenge, Mary K.. |
| This paper details the specific procedures utilized to develop the income proxy method for Kenya NGOs, reports on the performance of the method, and brings together in one place each part of the package needed to implement the method. The next section provides general background on income proxy methods; section III reports on the full income survey that formed the basis for development of the proxy method; section IV provides details on model development, including definition of income components, the types of proxy variables tested, and the performance of the models, while section V briefly explains how the models are to be used. Finally, section VI provides an overview of the rural economy in the study zone based on the detailed income data set collected... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food Security; Food Policy; Income Proxy Model; Kenya; Food Security and Poverty; Q18. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55153 |
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| Nyoro, James K.; Kiiru, M.W.; Jayne, Thomas S.. |
| The objectives of this paper are to: (1) identify the pattern of private sector investment in the maize marketing system since the reforms were initiated and evaluate the extent of private sector response to the reforms; (2) assess how maize prices and marketing margins have changed in response to the market reforms; (3) identify market-oriented mechanisms that have evolved in the current environment to reduce vulnerability of farmers, traders and consumers to price and expenditure instability; and (4) identify strategies that the government and private sector could implement to effectively promote the development of the evolving market oriented food systems. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food Security; Food Policy; Kenya; Maize; Crop Production/Industries; Marketing. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55148 |
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| Ariga, Joshua; Jayne, Thomas S.; Nyoro, James K.. |
| The objective of this study is to identify the factors responsible for the impressive growth in fertilizer use in Kenya since market liberalization in the early 1990s. Over the past 10 years, fertilizer consumption has risen by 35%. So far, it is unknown whether smallholder farmers are responsible for this growth or whether it is being driven mainly by the large-scale and/or estate sectors. Moreover, it is important for policy makers to know whether the increased fertilizer consumption is being devoted to smallholder food crops or whether industrial crops such as tea and sugarcane are responsible for this growth. This study addresses these questions using nationwide survey data on smallholder fertilizer use patterns between 1996 and 2004. The study also... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food Security; Food Policy; Fertilizer Consumption; Kenya; Crop Production/Industries; Q18. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55167 |
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| Argwings-Kodhek, Gem; Kwamboka, Mary; Karin, Francis. |
| The paper gives a brief description of the history and main institutional forms in the agricultural and rural financial services sector–commercial banks, the micro-finance industry, savings and credit cooperative societies, village banks, building societies and the Agricultural Finance Corporation. It ends by raising some of the issues that need to be addressed as we begin to deal with the institutional and regulatory framework for the subsector including the cost of funds and the array of existing policy and legislative proposals on the table. The main argument of the paper is that we need to step back and undertake a comprehensive assessment of the sector before government passes new laws, or spends public money in unproductive ways. The paper proposes... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food Security; Food Policy; Financial Services; Kenya; Micro-finance; Agricultural Finance; Q18. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55160 |
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| Kupiec-Teahan, Beata; Leat, Philip M.K.; Revoredo-Giha, Cesar. |
| A basic right of both a consumer and a citizen is the right to be heard, and their voiced concerns have to be taken into account when developing policies and obtaining trust for government actions. Therefore this study focuses on consumers’ interests, opinions and expectations which are identified and categorised according to subject area, degree of involvement and political agenda of a consumer. The paper draws on the responses of individual members of the public in the National Food Policy discussion initiated by the Scottish Government in 2008. Altogether 246 responses were subjected to quantitative analysis of texts, supported by text mining. A variety of interests and opinions underpinning the political agendas of individuals responding to the... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food Policy; Scotland; Text analysis; Consumer research; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/109391 |
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| Kupiec-Teahan, Beata; Leat, Philip M.K.; Revoredo-Giha, Cesar. |
| A basic right of both a consumer and a citizen is the right to be heard, and their voiced concerns have to be taken into account when developing policies and obtaining trust for government actions. Therefore this study focuses on consumers’ interests, opinions and expectations which are identified and categorised according to subject area, degree of involvement and political agenda of a consumer. The paper draws on the responses of individual members of the public in the National Food Policy discussion initiated by the Scottish Government in 2008. Altogether 246 responses were subjected to quantitative analysis of texts, supported by text mining. A variety of interests and opinions underpinning the political agendas of individuals responding to the... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Food Policy; Scotland; Text analysis. Consumer research; Consumer/Household Economics. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51061 |
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| Mohamed Arshad, Fatimah; Hameed, Amna Awad Abdel. |
| This paper examines the factors that led to the recent price hikes in food commodities and the implications to food security in Malaysia. Unlike the previous price crises, the price upsurge in 2008 resulted from the convergence of fundamental and technical factors and the increase of energy prices. The high price of crude oil has increased the demand for biofuel such as biodiesel, which utilises palm oil as the main feedstock. If this development continues, it may affect Malaysia’s capacity to produce more food as arable land will be dedicated to oil palm plantations. Hence, the landscape for food security concern has changed as energy and food demand are competing for the same pool of resources, in particular land and water. Further, low investments in... |
| Tipo: Article |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Malaysia; Food crisis.; Food Security and Poverty; Q18 Agricultural Policy; Food Policy. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/119073 |
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