Research Catalog

Title

Food security in Africa : market and trade policy for staple foods in Eastern and Southern Africa / edited by Alexander Sarris, Jamie Morrison.

Publication

Cheltenham ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, c2010.

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Additional Authors

• Sarris, Alexander.
• Morrison, Jamie.

Description

xi, 423 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

The editors and contributors to this volume bring a variety of theoretical, analytical and informed case study approaches to bear on the African food security problem.

Subject

• Food security > Africa, East
• Food supply > Africa, East
• Food security > Africa, Southern
• Food supply > Africa, Southern
• Marktpolitik
• Handelspolitik
• Grundnahrungsmittel
• Schwarzafrika

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Jamie Morrison and Alexander Sarris -- Trade, agriculture and optimal commercial policy in eastern and southern Africa / Edward F. Buffie -- Smallholder market participation: concepts and evidence from eastern and southern Africa / Christopher B. Barrett -- Governance and surplus distribution in commodity value chains in Africa / Johan F.M. Swinnen, Anneleen Vandeplas and Miet Maertens -- Liberalizing trade under structural constraints in developing countries: a general equilibrium analysis of Tanzania / Piero Conforti and Alexander Sarris -- Grain marketing policy at the crossroads: challenges for eastern and southern Africa / T.S. Jayne, Antony Chapoto and Jones Govereh -- Unofficial cross-border trade in eastern Africa / Peter D. Little -- Regional trade and food security: recent evidence from Zambia / Paul A. Dorosh, Simon Dradri and Steven Haggblade -- Maize trade and marketing policy interventions in Kenya / Joshua Ariga and T.S. Jayne -- Assessment of maize trade and market policy interventions in Malawi / Ephraim W. Chirwa -- Alternative staple food trade and market policy interventions: country-level assessment of South Africa / Lulama Ndibongo Traub and Ferdinand Meyer -- Maize trade and marketing policy interventions in Tanzania / Andrew E. Temu, Appolinary Manyama and Anna A. Temu -- Assessment of alternative maize trade and market policy interventions in Zambia / Jones Govereh, Antony Chapoto and T.S. Jayne -- Trade and market policy interventions: a synthesis of insights from research on eastern and southern African grain markets / Jamie Morrison and Alexander Sarris.

ISBN

• 9781848448513 (hardbound)
• 1848448511 (hardbound)
• 9789251062210 (paperback)
• 9251062218 (paperback)

OCLC

• 461279061
• SCSB-11746167

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library