"Food policy often depends on markets and markets depend on institutions. But how good do institutions have to be before reforms can be launched? Relying on well timed surveys of agricultural prices and a joint study by the Government of Bulgaria and the World Bank on agricultural market...

Drawing on insights from theoretical applications, empirically based approaches and case study experience, this book contributes to the improved design and use of trade and related policy interventions in staple food markets

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background -- 3 Macroeconomic Policy and Performance -- 4 Profile of Incomes and Poverty in Tanzania -- 5 Performance of Agriculture -- 6 Trends in Incomes and Welfare of Various Income Groups -- 7...

Studies of risk and its consequences tend to focus on one risk factor, such as a drought or an economic crisis. Yet 2003 household surveys in rural Kilimanjaro and Ruvuma, two cash-crop-growing regions in Tanzania that experienced a precipitous coffee price decline around the turn of the...