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RESPONSIVENESS OF SPATIAL PRICE VOLATILITY TO INCREASED GOVERNMENT PARTICIPATION IN MAIZE GRAIN AND MAIZE MEAL MARKETING IN ZAMBIA

Syampaku, E.M; Mafimisebi, T.E. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

The study analyzed the responsiveness of maize grain and maize meal spatial price volatilities to increased government … participation in maize grain marketing in Zambia using descriptive statistics and vector auto-regression (VAR). This was achieved by … spatial volatility discovery in the two vertical markets (maize grain and maize meal) was discovered from VAR equations. Real …

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The political economy of food price policy: The case of Zambia

Chapoto, Antony - 2012

The global food price crisis of 2007/08 raised fears about the impacts of higher and more volatile food prices for the poor in Zambia. Like in the past, the implementation of the strategies to deal with the rising food prices, especially for the staple crop maize were delayed due to ineffective...

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The Political Economy of Food Price Policy: The Case of Zambia

Chapoto, Antony - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

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Logistic model application for prediction of maize yield under water and nitrogen management

Sepaskhah, Ali Reza; Fahandezh-Saadi, Saghar; … - In: Agricultural Water Management 99 (2011) 1, pp. 51-57

Simulation of crop yield allows better planning and efficient management under different environmental inputs such as water and nitrogen application. However, most of the models are complicated and difficult to understand. Furthermore, input data are not readily available. The objectives of this...

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