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Publikováno v:
Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies. 8:234-255
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how various transaction-cost characteristics influence the choice of vertical coordination (VC) structures (e.g. different contract types) and horizontal coordination (HC) structures (e.g. different far
Publikováno v:
Food Policy. 71:27-38
Low-income households in Sahelian West Africa face multiple shocks that risk compressing their already-low food consumption levels. This paper develops a multi-market simulation model to evaluate the impact of common production and world-price shocks
Autor:
John M. Staatz, Yuan Zhou
Publikováno v:
Food Policy. 61:198-212
This paper (a) summarizes recent evidence of changes in dietary patterns in the 15 ECOWAS countries of West Africa over the past 30 years and the forces driving those changes (In this paper, the term “West Africa” refers to the 15 countries that
Publikováno v:
Area Development and Policy. 1:113-131
This study analyses the linkages between rural-to-rural migration as measured by rural population growth and land-tenure conflict in southwestern Mali. Land-tenure rules in Mali are characterized by legal pluralism, leading to ambiguity about who has
Autor:
John M. Staatz, Ramziath T. Adjao
Publikováno v:
Global Food Security. 5:50-55
Despite significant increases in rice production, sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) still procures about one third of its rice needs through imports, mainly from Asia. Improving the competitiveness of local rice production will be economically sustainable onl
Publikováno v:
Cahiers Agricultures. 23:317-324
Evaluation of the impact of investments in agricultural market information systems (MIS) on market performance faces several methodological challenges. These include: (a) defining the dimensions of market performance to measure (which is a function o
Autor:
John M. Staatz, Andrew M. Kizito
Publikováno v:
Cahiers Agricultures. 23:325-335
This article develops a simple partial equilibrium model to provide lower-bound estimates of the potential payoffs of providing improved agricultural market information in the form of price forecasts to producers and consumers. It then applies the mo
Autor:
John M. Staatz, Frank Hollinger
Publikováno v:
West African Papers.
Fueled by a burgeoning population, urbanisation and income growth, West African food demand is rapidly transforming, with striking increases in total quantities demanded, growing preference for convenience, diversification of diets towards more peris
Autor:
John M. Staatz
Publikováno v:
American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 96:1505-1507
Publikováno v:
Food Policy. 24:465-478
This article summarizes research and policy questions, and research methods and findings of four case studies of the impacts of the 1994 CFA franc devaluation in West Africa on urban food consumption. The case studies are household surveys from Burki