Author: Joseph C. Mills
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acreage allotments
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Economic research paper resulting from a questionnaire survey of 900 smallholding farmers in Malawi to measure land utilization response to the agricultural price of various crops - includes a bibliography pp. 43 and 44 and statistical tables.
Price Responses of Malawi Smallholder Farmers
Author: Joseph C. Mills
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acreage allotments
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Economic research paper resulting from a questionnaire survey of 900 smallholding farmers in Malawi to measure land utilization response to the agricultural price of various crops - includes a bibliography pp. 43 and 44 and statistical tables.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acreage allotments
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Economic research paper resulting from a questionnaire survey of 900 smallholding farmers in Malawi to measure land utilization response to the agricultural price of various crops - includes a bibliography pp. 43 and 44 and statistical tables.
Disentangling food security from subsistence agriculture in Malawi
Author: Benson, Todd
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN: 0896294056
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN: 0896294056
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Agricultural Input Subsidies
Author: Ephraim Chirwa
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199683522
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
This book takes forward our understanding of agricultural input subsidies in low income countries.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199683522
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
This book takes forward our understanding of agricultural input subsidies in low income countries.
Agricultural Pricing and Environmental Degradation
Author: Edward Barbier
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Changes in pricing policies are not enough to encourage poor farmers to reduce resource degradation. Other approaches are also needed, such as providing better research and extension advice, improving property rights and management, and establishing more secure tenure or access rights. Just because we do not always understand the economic and social factors determining incentive effects does not mean they do not exist.
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Changes in pricing policies are not enough to encourage poor farmers to reduce resource degradation. Other approaches are also needed, such as providing better research and extension advice, improving property rights and management, and establishing more secure tenure or access rights. Just because we do not always understand the economic and social factors determining incentive effects does not mean they do not exist.
Achieving food security and industrial development in Malawi
Author: Aragie, Emerta
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Restrictions on exports of staples or cash crops are frequently imposed in developing countries to promote food security or industrial development goals. By diverting production to the local market, these policies aim to reduce prices and increase the supply of food or intermediate inputs to the benefit of consumers or downstream industrial users. Although export restrictions reduce aggregate welfare, they are attractive to policymakers: Governments gain support when they are seen to keep consumer prices low; likewise, politicians are swayed by industrial lobbyists who promise increased value-addition in exchange for access to cheaper inputs. This study weighs in on the debate around the desirability of export restrictions by simulating the economy-wide effects of Malawi’s longstanding maize export ban as well as a pro-posed oilseed export levy intended to raise value-addition in processing sectors. Our results show that, while export restrictions may have the desired outcome in the short run, producers respond to weakening market prospects in the longer run by restricting supply, often to the extent that the policies become self-defeating. Specifically, maize export bans only benefit the urban non-poor, while poor farm households experience income losses and reduced maize consumption in the long run. The oilseed export levy is equally ineffective: Even when export tax revenues are used to subsidize processors, gains in industrial value-addition are outweighed by declining agricultural value-addition as production in the fledgling oilseed sector is effectively decimated. The policy is further associated with welfare losses among rural households, while urban non-poor households benefit marginally.
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Restrictions on exports of staples or cash crops are frequently imposed in developing countries to promote food security or industrial development goals. By diverting production to the local market, these policies aim to reduce prices and increase the supply of food or intermediate inputs to the benefit of consumers or downstream industrial users. Although export restrictions reduce aggregate welfare, they are attractive to policymakers: Governments gain support when they are seen to keep consumer prices low; likewise, politicians are swayed by industrial lobbyists who promise increased value-addition in exchange for access to cheaper inputs. This study weighs in on the debate around the desirability of export restrictions by simulating the economy-wide effects of Malawi’s longstanding maize export ban as well as a pro-posed oilseed export levy intended to raise value-addition in processing sectors. Our results show that, while export restrictions may have the desired outcome in the short run, producers respond to weakening market prospects in the longer run by restricting supply, often to the extent that the policies become self-defeating. Specifically, maize export bans only benefit the urban non-poor, while poor farm households experience income losses and reduced maize consumption in the long run. The oilseed export levy is equally ineffective: Even when export tax revenues are used to subsidize processors, gains in industrial value-addition are outweighed by declining agricultural value-addition as production in the fledgling oilseed sector is effectively decimated. The policy is further associated with welfare losses among rural households, while urban non-poor households benefit marginally.
The Context of Small-scale Integrated Agriculture-aquaculture Systems in Africa
Author:
Publisher: WorldFish
ISBN: 9711022656
Category : Agricultural systems
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Publisher: WorldFish
ISBN: 9711022656
Category : Agricultural systems
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Farming Systems and Poverty
Author: John A. Dixon
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251046272
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
A joint FAO and World Bank study which shows how the farming systems approach can be used to identify priorities for the reduction of hunger and poverty in the main farming systems of the six major developing regions of the world.
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251046272
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
A joint FAO and World Bank study which shows how the farming systems approach can be used to identify priorities for the reduction of hunger and poverty in the main farming systems of the six major developing regions of the world.
Prices of Fertilizers
Author: H. L. Trumbull
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fertilizers
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fertilizers
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Agricultural Marketing and Price Policy in Malawi
Author: Kay Muir
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture and state
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture and state
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Malaŵi and Madagascar
Author: Frederic L. Pryor
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195208238
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Provides a comparison of the economic systems and long-term economic policies of these two countries, in order to illustrate not only their different economic approaches to similar problems, but also to highlight general forces linking poverty, equity and growth in all developing nations.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195208238
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Provides a comparison of the economic systems and long-term economic policies of these two countries, in order to illustrate not only their different economic approaches to similar problems, but also to highlight general forces linking poverty, equity and growth in all developing nations.