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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)
Lawrence Rubey
David Tschirley
Mulinge Mukumbu
Munhamo Chisvo
Ana Paula Santos
Michael T. Weber
Patrick 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" (i.e., commodities purchased primarily by the poor) to improve vulnerable groups' access to food through market development strategies and food aid programs. While much research has been devoted to understanding how producers and traders would respond to reform of staple food markets, relatively little is known about the potential or actual responses by consumers. The report presents recent findings from six household-level surveys in urban areas of Zimbabwe, Kenya, Zambia, and Mozambique between 1991 and 1994. Secondary data from South Africa and Malawi are also presented where available.

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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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  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!]
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  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. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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!]
  6. 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!]
  7. Jones Govereh & Steven Haggblade & Hunter Nielson & David L. Tschirley, 2008. "Maize Market Sheds in Eastern and Southern Africa. Report 1," International Development Collaborative Working Papers wb_001, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. [Downloadable!]
  8. 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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  9. 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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