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Rice flows across regions in Madagascar

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  • Ralandison, Tsilavo
  • Arimoto, Yutaka
  • Kono, Hisaki
  • Sakurai, Takeshi
  • Takahashi, Kazushi

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This paper examines rice trade flows within and across regions in Madagascar, based on data of unique rice sales collected in 22 major markets in Madagascar in 2012 and 2013. We find that intra-regional trade accounts for a large fraction of the overall rice trade. We then focus on factors that may affect inter-regional transactions, such as market status (i.e. deficit or surplus), geographical proximity and seasonality (harvest vs. non-harvest and rainy vs. dry). We find that rice flows mainly from surplus to deficit regions and within regions that are geographically proximate. Seasonal factors have a generally negligible impact on rice flow.

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  • Ralandison, Tsilavo & Arimoto, Yutaka & Kono, Hisaki & Sakurai, Takeshi & Takahashi, Kazushi, 2018. "Rice flows across regions in Madagascar," African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, African Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 13(1), March.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:afjare:273138
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.273138
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    • O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
    • Q13 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Markets and Marketing; Cooperatives; Agribusiness

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