benefited from the bumper crop and FRA‟s involvement in maize marketing. The FRA‟s high buy price and purchase of nearly 900 … key features of the 2010/11 GRZ maize marketing policies and their likely income distributional effects on various …

marketing margins, which shrink the wedge between producer and consumer prices. Moreover, Malawi faces major political and …

enable smallholders to develop more effective marketing strategies and to negotiate more effectively with traders, in order … to reduce marketing costs as well as the cost of modern inputs such as fertilizer to the farm gate. Rehabilitating the … marketing policy to adherence to more systematic rules-based policies. Nurturing credible commitment in regard to trade policy …

Despite the resurgence of parastatal marketing boards and strategic grain reserves over the last decade in eastern and …

Marketing boards and strategic reserves have re-emerged over the last decade as significant actors in grain markets in …

perception has led many governments in the region to shun an open maize borders policy and pursue a variety of food marketing and … alternative food marketing and trade policies, including that of liberalization, on price stability and predictability … through the operations of marketing boards and controls on trade. This study examines the amplitude of price instability and …

have entrenched a relatively high-cost marketing system and impeded the development of lower-cost channels from developing … restrictions under the controlled marketing systems and subsidies on refined maize meal. (3) Since the removal of refined meal …

Africa. This study investigates patterns in staple food prices, wage rates, and marketing margins for urban consumers in … 2008/09 marketing season were still roughly double their levels of the mid-1990s. The national minimum wage in Mozambique …/07 marketing seasons, respectively. During the 2008/09 marketing season, Maputo minimum wage earners’ rice and wheat flour …