, especially with regard to government efforts to stabilize food prices. Three broad market failures constitute the primary …In developing countries across Asia, food marketing parastatals have played an important role in agricultural policy … arguments for this form of government intervention: a lack of market integration stemming from inadequate infrastructure, the …

, and 2030. For projecting household demand, the Almost Ideal Demand System (LA-AIDS) is estimated for eight food items … projection is then used to estimate the levels of wheat and rice produced for 2009–2030, with the projections of the exogenous … determinants of production based on linear time trend models. The results show that the demand for wheat and rice will more than …

Southern African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing …, Zambia, and Zimbabwe — and explores how climate change will increase the efforts needed to achieve sustainable food … security throughout the region. Southern Africa’s population is expected to grow at least through mid-century. The region …

Since the year 2000, Pakistan’s population has been growing at a rate that is higher than domestic food grain … production. In view of the importance of wheat and rice in the human diet in Pakistan, it is extremely important to estimate the …

This paper tries to account for the changes in household consumption patterns associated with the change in PDS policy … these five states than in the rest of India. An average household in these states purchased 3 kg more rice per month from … administrative reforms. The increase in consumption of PDS rice was the highest in Chhattisgarh, the poster state of public …

The Ethiopian government has been promoting a package-driven extension that combines credit, fertilizers, improved … crops: barley, maize, teff, and wheat. Since maize is the only crop that exhibits considerable adoption of improved seed, we …

agricultural output marketing and procurement of food grains in Nepal. …

, however, that government imports and sales in 2008-09 effectively increased domestic supply and lowered market wheat prices … subsidy. Allowing the private sector access to foreign exchange for wheat imports or auctioning government wheat imports in …/05 to 2008/09, prices of major cereals (teff, maize, wheat and sorghum) have fluctuated sharply in both nominal and real …