The objective of this paper is to determine how liberalization of Ethiopia’s grain marketing system in March 1990 has affected the level and volatility of wholesale prices and price spreads between major regional cereal markets. The paper also identifies issues and problems needing attention...

Grain Marketing Research Project, Ministry of Economic Development and Cooperation, Addis Ababa

Grain Marketing Research Project, Ministry of Economic Development and Cooperation, Addis Ababa

The paper consists of three parts. The first part of the paper is a review of agricultural performance in Ethiopia over the past forty years. The second part diagnoses agricultural system performance and food security problems in Ethiopia and discusses some tentative practical strategies for...

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Directorate of Economics, Republic of Mozambique

The objective of this paper is to identify factors that can improve the ability of future local purchase activities to achieve a range of national food policy objectives. This analysis reviews the design and implementation of 1996 local purchase activities in Ethiopia in relation to three key...

Grain Marketing Research Project, Ministry of Economic Development and Cooperation, Addis Ababa

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Directorate of Economics, Republic of Mozambique

This report assesses how the recent deregulation of fertilizer prices will affect the profitability of fertilizer use on various crops throughout Ethiopia. The report also identifies other policy measures that can increase the cost-effective use of fertilizer to promote productivity growth...

This paper demonstrates that there is relatively little association between field slope and crop cover in Rwanda, and examines the question of how this could be so in this highland African nation.