food security, poverty alleviation, and economic growth in Zambia. …

makers, donors, and researchers. the paper begins by outlining the challenges faced by cotton production and marketing …, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Mozambique. In four of these countries, cotton is the first- or second most important …With cotton sector reform in much of SSA a decade old, it is now possible to review the empirical record and begin …

in Mali. The objective of the reconnaissance was to explore changes in cereal production and marketing patterns as an … detailed marketing studies to be undertaken in the context of PROMISAM II’s applied research program on promoting food security …

institutions. Maize receives intensive government input and marketing support. In contrast, cotton relies primarily on private … institutions. Analysis focuses on maize, cotton, and horticulture, three widely marketed crops with strikingly different market …

. Despite being landlocked, Zambia's cotton sector has achieved better performance in terms of both value of cotton output per …Cotton is one of the most important smallholder cash crops in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). How to ensure input supply …, credit recovery and competition is a subject of intense policy debate. This paper examines the performance of cotton sector …

uniform temperature changes and apply it to a global fiber model to map changes in cotton production and prices. Although we … price and -1.3% in global production) changes in the cotton market. …In this paper, we take the yield impacts of Schlenker and Roberts (2009), specifically on cotton, under a range of …

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’s trade and production policy. The model developed here forecasts changes in the U.S. upland cotton farm price based on …This report analyzes recent structural changes in the world cotton industry and develops a statistical model that … reflects current drivers of U.S. cotton prices. Legislative changes in 2008 authorized USDA to resume publishing cotton price …

Zambia's record-breaking maize harvest of nearly 2.8 million metric tons (MT) in 2010 is a major achievement and a … 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 …