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How To Avoid Killing The Chicken That Lays The Golden Eggs: An Analysis Of The Potential Impacts Of An Export Tax On Raw Tobacco In Mozambique

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Rui Benfica
Arlindo Miguel
Julieta Zandamela
Natércia de Sousa
Duncan H. Boughton () (Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University)
David Tschirley () (Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University)
Higino de Marrule

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Tobacco production in Mozambique has grown very rapidly over the past seven years. From 1,500 tons in the 1996/7 agricultural season, national production of raw tobacco has increased every year to reach approximately 50,000 tons in 2003/4 (Figure 1). Over the same period the estimated number of tobacco growing households has increased from 6,000 to more than 120,000. There are currently five major firms (or partnerships) operating in the country promoting both smallholder contract farming schemes and larger scale commercial operations. The impact of this rapid expansion of the tobacco sector on rural smallholder household incomes and economic growth has been dramatic.

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Paper provided by Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University in its series International Development Collaborative Policy Briefs with number MZ-MINAG-FL-42E.

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Keywords: food security; food policy; Mozambique;

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Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy

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  1. Rui Benfica & Julieta Zandamela & Arlindo Miguel & Natérica de Sousa, 2005. "The Economics of Smallholder Households in Tobacco and Cotton Growing Areas of the Zambezi Valley of Mozambique," International Development Collaborative Working Papers MZ-MINAG-RR-59E, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. [Downloadable!]
  2. Duncan Boughton & Rui M.S. Benfica, 2007. "Income Poverty Effects of Expansion and Policies in Cash Cropping Economies in Rural Mozambique: An Economy-wide Approach," International Development Collaborative Working Papers MZ-MINAG-RR-64e, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. [Downloadable!]
  3. Duncan Boughton & Rui M.S. Benfica, 2007. "Interlinked Transactions in Cash Cropping Economies: Rationale for Persistence, and the Determinants of Farmer Participation and Performance in the Zambezi Valley of Mozambique," International Development Collaborative Working Papers MZ-MINAG-RR-63e, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. [Downloadable!]
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