Author: Rico IhlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Measuring the Integration of Staple Food Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Rico IhlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Staple Food Prices in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Empirical Assessment
Author: Cedric OkouPublisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
This paper analyzes the domestic and external drivers of local staple food prices in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using data on domestic market prices of the five most consumed staple foods from 15 countries, this paper finds that external factors drive food price inflation, but domestic factors can mitigate these vulnerabilities. On the external side, our estimations show that Sub-Saharan African countries are highly vulnerable to global food prices, with the pass-through from global to local food prices estimated close to unity for highly imported staples. On the domestic side, staple food price inflation is lower in countries with greater local production and among products with lower consumption shares. Additionally, adverse shocks such as natural disasters and wars bring 1.8 and 4 percent staple food price surges respectively beyond generalized price increases. Economic policy can lower food price inflation, as the strength of monetary policy and fiscal frameworks, the overall economic environment, and transport constraints in geographically challenged areas account for substantial cross-country differences in staple food prices.
Food Security, Food Prices and Climate Variability
Author: Molly E. BrownPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135096333
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The agriculture system is under pressure to increase production every year as global population expands and more people move from a diet mostly made up of grains, to one with more meat, dairy and processed foods. This book uses a decade of primary research to examine how weather and climate, as measured by variations in the growing season using satellite remote sensing, has affected agricultural production, food prices and access to food in food-insecure regions of the world. The author reviews environmental, economics and multidisciplinary research to describe the connection between global environmental change, changing weather conditions and local staple food price variability. The context of the analysis is the humanitarian aid community, using the guidance of the USAID Famine Early Warning Systems Network and the United Nation’s World Food Program in their response to food security crises. These organizations have worked over the past three decades to provide baseline information on food production through satellite remote sensing data and agricultural yield models, as well as assessments of food access through a food price database. These datasets are used to describe the connection, and to demonstrate the importance of these metrics in overall outcomes in food-insecure communities.
Measuring Spatial Market Integration Between Urban and Rural Food Markets in South Africa
Author: Sydwell Maletjile LekgauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Food
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
This study focused on measuring spatial market integration between urban and rural food markets in South Africa. The study was influenced by continual debate on the issue of high food price increases among the basic agricultural foods which have impact on food price differentials that exists in market locations. Higher food price differentials between market locations can have negative implications for households’ livelihoods. In South Africa the majority of lower-income earners live in rural areas, which implies that the disposable incomes of those households are affected differently by higher price differentials. To ensure that there are lower price differentials between market locations, spatial market integration is required. The main objective of this study was to measure spatial market integration between urban and rural food markets. This objective was achieved through the modelling of secondary price data of the 2.5 kg package of super maize meal. Data used in the study was collected by the NAMC and Stats SA during the period of November 2006 to July 2012. The study used a co-integration model, together with the Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) and the Autoregressive Distributive Lag (ADL) model. The study revealed that out of the nine markets which were measured for spatial integration, six of the rural food markets were co-integrated with urban markets. Estimation of the six co-integrated markets with the VECM revealed a long-run equilibrium relationship between urban and rural food markets. The VECM results further showed different speeds of price adjustments to the long-run equilibrium which was faster (65% on average) in five markets and slower (40 %) in one market. The fast speed of price adjustment to long-run equilibrium relationships suggests that transaction costs have significant effects on markets linkages. Markets also showed different time of adjustments which was between three and five months. Short-run dynamic effects were found in only three markets and could not be established in the other six rural food markets. Price information flow, transportation costs and transaction costs are seen as bottlenecks that prohibit integration of markets in the short run. With regard to price relationships, the study found statistically significant differences between urban and all rural food market mean prices. This suggested that the price of 2.5 kg maize meal was generally high in all rural markets, as compared with urban markets. Markets with very high price increases were those located in the lower production potential areas of the maize commodity. The Impulse Response Function (IRF) was employed to establish the effects of negative and positive price transmission shocks from the urban to the rural food markets. One standard deviation was put into the model to establish the response of markets to shocks. The markets tested revealed a period of between two and eleven months for the negative and positive impulses to be cleared in all the markets. A high degree of spatial market integration was found when negative and positive shocks did not exhibit price diversion from the long-run equilibrium relationship.
Food Systems in Africa
Author: Gaëlle BalineauPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 1464815895
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Rapid population growth, poorly planned urbanization, and evolving agricultural production and distribution practices are changing foodways in African cities and creating challenges: Africans are increasingly facing hunger, undernutrition, and malnutrition. Yet change also creates new opportunities. The food economy currently is the main source of jobs on the continent, promising more employment in the near future in farming, food processing, and food product distribution. These opportunities are undermined, however, by inefficient links among farmers, intermediaries, and consumers, leading to the loss of one-third of all food produced. This volume is an in-depth analysis of food system shortcomings in three West African cities: Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire; Rabat, Morocco; and Niamey, Niger. Using the lens of geographical economics and sociology, the authors draw on quantitative and qualitative field surveys and case studies to offer insightful analyses of political institutions. They show the importance of “hard†? physical infrastructure, such as transport, storage, and wholesale and retail market facilities. They also describe the “soft†? infrastructure of institutions that facilitate trade, such as interpersonal trust, market information systems, and business climates. The authors find that the vague mandates and limited capacities of national trade and agriculture ministries, regional and urban authorities, neighborhood councils, and market cooperatives often hamper policy interventions. This volume comes to a simple conclusion: international development policy makers and their financial and technical partners have neglected urban markets for far too long, and now is the time to rethink and reinvest in this complex yet crucial subject.
Food Security in Africa
Author: Alexander SarrisPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1849806365
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
'As they often do, Jamie Morrison and Alexander Sarris have provided researchers, policy-makers, and the interested public with the firm empirical grounding needed for sound agricultural development policies. They have synthesized from a rich and varied set of country studies a unique contribution to one of the key challenges of our times increasing the productivity of smallholder food production in the age of globalization.' Timothy A. Wise, Tufts University, US 'Food security has been a major concern in Africa for decades, and a more pressing problem with recent increases in food prices. The editors and contributors to this volume are experts in the field and should be commended for a timely, informative and in places challenging analysis of food production and markets in eastern and southern Africa. The volume brings a refreshing variety of theoretical, analytical and informed case study approaches to bear on the food security problem; it should be read by anybody seriously interested in African development.' Oliver Morrissey, University of Nottingham, UK Drawing on insights from theoretical applications, empirically based approaches and case study experience, this book contributes to the improved design and use of trade and related policy interventions in staple food markets. Trade policy interventions have a potentially critical role to play in the development of staple food markets in developing countries and, as a source of revenue, in wider processes of rural development. Governments have long defended trade and related policy interventions in staple food markets on the basis of food security concerns. However, the design and implementation of these policies has often resulted in unintended impacts, increasing the risks faced by private sector actors and reducing their incentives for investment in improved market performance. In the context of increasingly volatile staple food markets, this book, commissioned from leading experts in this field, seeks to enhance dialogue between stakeholders involved in, and affected by, the design and use of trade and related policy interventions. This significant book will appeal to policy analysts and decision makers influential in the design and implementation of trade and related market interventions, as well as students of development economics. Researchers contributing to debates on the use and impacts of trade and related market interventions in staple food markets in poor countries will also find this volume of great benefit.
Market-oriented Strategies to Improve Household Access to Food
Author: The Food and Financial Crises in Sub-Saharan Africa Origins, Impacts and Policy Implications
Author: M. B. NduloPublisher: CABI
ISBN: 9781845939144
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Dramatic increases in food prices, as witnessed on a global scale in recent years, threaten the food security of hundreds of millions of the rural poor in Sub-Saharan Africa alone. This book focuses on recent food and financial crises as they have affected Africa, illustrating the problems using country case studies, that cover their origins, effects on agriculture and rural poverty, their underlying factors and making recommendations as to how such crises could best be addressed in the future.
Food Safety and Informal Markets
Author: Kristina RoeselPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317593979
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Animal products are vital components of the diets and livelihoods of people across sub-Saharan Africa. They are frequently traded in local, unregulated markets and this can pose significant health risks. This volume presents an accessible overview of these issues in the context of food safety, zoonoses and public health, while at the same time maintaining fair and equitable livelihoods for poorer people across the continent. The book includes a review of the key issues and 25 case studies of the meat, milk, egg and fish food sectors drawn from a wide range of countries in East, West and Southern Africa, as part of the "Safe Food, Fair Food" project. It describes a realistic analysis of food safety risk by developing a methodology of ‘participatory food safety risk assessment’, involving small-scale producers and consumers in the process of data collection in a data-poor environment often found in developing countries. This approach aims to ensure market access for poor producers, while adopting a realistic and pragmatic strategy for reducing the risk of food-borne diseases for consumers.
Marketing Staple Food Crops in Tropical Africa
Author: William O. JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description