the country’s growing national food deficit. In 2007, this manifested in the creation of a comprehensive multi … (NAAIAP), with the objective of raising food production and farm productivity. However, little nationwide and longer term …

poor and food insecure, policymakers face what is called the food price dilemma. On the one hand, they need to provide … farmers with incentives to increase the quantity of marketed food staples to feed a growing population, especially in rapidly … that lower the retail price of staple foods for consumers. Achieving both objectives – increasing marketed supplies of food …

demonstrate how a market-guided food systems approach could be applied to a particular commodity, thus facilitating coordination … of vertical stages in the agricultural production and marketing system. The food systems approach begins with …