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 …

recognition of the costs of historical controls on pricing and marketing already has led to partial maize market liberalization in … policy objectives and the existing marketing and pricing system. Second, trends in maize production, trade, prices and … marketing costs in South Africa and Zimbabwe, the two largest maize traders in the region, are presented. Third, we present four …

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 …

marketing. …

on smallholder crop marketing behavior and urban consumption patterns in Eastern and Southern Africa, and their …