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Market-Oriented Strategies to Improve Household Access to Food: Experience from Sub-Saharan Africa

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T. S. Jayne () (Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University)
D. L. Tschirley
John M. Staatz
James D. Shaffer
Michael T. Weber
Munhamo Chisvo
Mulinge Mukumbu

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The objectives of this report are to identify market-oriented strategies to alleviate both chronic and transitory food insecurity, and to examine the interactions between short-run targeting mechanisms and longer-run strategies designed to alleviate the chronic causes of inadequate access to food. The main premise of the report is that sustained improvements in household access to food in Sub-Saharan Africa require the development of more reliable food and input markets that (a) create incentives to adopt cost-reducing investments at various stages in the food system; and (b) offer incentives for rural households to shift from a subsistence-oriented pattern of production and consumption to more productive systems based on specialization and gains from exchange.

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Paper provided by Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University in its series International Development Papers with number 15.

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Keywords: food security; food policy;

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  1. Traub, Lulama Ndibongo & Jayne, T.S., 2004. "The Effects of Market Reform on Maize Marketing Margins in South Africa," Food Security III Papers 11445, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics. [Downloadable!]
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