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Effects of Market Reform on Access to Food by Low-Income Households: Evidence from Four Countries in Eastern and Southern Africa

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T. S. Jayne () (Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University)
L. Rubey
D. Tschirley
M. Mukumbu
M. Chisvo
A. Santos
M. Weber
P. Diskin

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This report analyzes the effects of grain market reform and food subsidy elimination in Eastern and Southern Africa on access to food for low-income consumers. The report also assesses the potential to use "self-targeted commodities" to improve vulnerable groups' access to food through market development strategies and food aid programs.

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Paper provided by Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University in its series International Development Papers with number 19.

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Date of creation: 1995
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Keywords: food security; food policy; grain market reform; food subsidy;

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Q13 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Markets and Marketing; Cooperatives; Agribusiness

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  1. T. S. Jayne & Milan Hajek & Johan van Zyl, 1995. "An Analysis of Alternative Maize Marketing Policies in South Africa," International Development Working Papers 50, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Robert W. Fogel, 1994. "Economic Growth, Population Theory, and Physiology: The Bearing of Long-Term Processes on the Making of Economic Policy," NBER Working Papers 4638, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  3. David D. Rohrbach, 1989. "The Economics of Smallholder Maize Production in Zimbabwe: Implications for Food Security," International Development Papers 11, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. [Downloadable!]
  4. MOA/MSU Research Team, 1994. "Who Eats Yellow Maize? Some Preliminary Results of a Survey of Consumer Maize Meal Preferences in Maputo," International Development Collaborative Working Papers MZ-MINAG-RR-18E, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. [Downloadable!]
  5. Jayne, T S, 1994. "Do High Food Marketing Costs Constrain Cash Crop Production? Evidence from Zimbabwe," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 42(2), pages 387-402, January.
  6. Duncan Boughton & Eric Crawford & Julie Howard & James Oehmke & James Shaffer & John Staatz, 1996. "A Strategic Approach to Agricultural Research Program Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa," International Development Policy Syntheses 8, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. [Downloadable!]
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  7. Rohrbach, David D., 1989. "The Economics of Smallholder Maize Production in Zimbabwe: Implications for Food Security," Food Security III Papers 11285, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics. [Downloadable!]
  8. MOA/MSU Research Team, 1993. "The Pricing and Distribution of Yellow Maize Food Aid in Mozambique: An Analysis of Alternatives," International Development Collaborative Working Papers MZ-MINAG-RR-12E, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. [Downloadable!]
  9. Jayne, T. S. & Rubey, Lawrence, 1993. "Maize milling, market reform and urban food security: The case of Zimbabwe," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 21(6), pages 975-987, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  10. Jayne, T. S. & Rukuni, Mandivamba, 1993. "Distributional effects of maize self-sufficiency in Zimbabwe: Implications for pricing and trade policy," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 18(4), pages 334-341, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Smale, Melinda & Jayne, T.S., 2003. "Maize in Eastern and Southern Africa: 'seeds' of success in retrospect," EPTD discussion papers 97, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). [Downloadable!]
  2. Tschirley, David L. & Weber, Michael T., 1996. "Relato De Sucesso Da Seguranca Alimentar Em Mocambique," Food Security III Papers 11431, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics. [Downloadable!]
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  3. David L. Tschirley & Michael T. Weber, 1996. "Mozambique Food Security Success Story," International Development Policy Syntheses 19, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. [Downloadable!]
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  4. T. S. Jayne & Mulinge Mukumbu & John Duncan & John Staatz & Julie Howard & Mattias Lundberg & Kim Aldridge & Bethel Nakaponda & Jake Ferris & Francis Keita & Abdel Kader Sanankoua, 1996. "Trends in Real Food Prices in Six Sub-Saharan African Countries," International Development Working Papers 55, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. [Downloadable!]
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  5. Jayne, T.S. & Rubey, Lawrence & Chisvo, Munhamo & Weber, Michael T., 1996. "Zimbabwe Food Security Success Story: Maize Market Reforms Improve Access To Food Even While Government Eliminates Food Subsidies," Food Security III Papers 11326, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics. [Downloadable!]
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  6. Neil McCulloch & Bob Baulch & Milasoa Cherel-Robson, 2000. "Poverty, Inequality and Growth in Zambia during the 1990s," Econometrics 0004004, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
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  7. SIMA Technical Team, 1996. "Relato do Sucesso da Segurança Alimentar em Mocambique," International Development Collaborative Policy Briefs MZ-MINAG-FL-02P, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. [Downloadable!]
  8. SIMA Technical Team, 1996. "Mozambique's Food Security Success Story," International Development Collaborative Policy Briefs MZ-MINAG-FL-02E, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. [Downloadable!]
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