A Spatial Analysis of Household Grain Purchases in Zimbabwe's Liberalized Marketing System
| Autor: | SW Gundry, Samuel Kudhlande, Prabhat Vaze, James D. Wright |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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Economic growth
Food security Ecology Liberalization media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Market system Subsidy 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences Independence Agricultural economics Surplus production 0502 economics and business 040103 agronomy & agriculture Information system 0401 agriculture forestry and fisheries Animal Science and Zoology 050202 agricultural economics & policy Business Rural area Agronomy and Crop Science media_common |
| Zdroj: | Outlook on Agriculture. 25:37-42 |
| ISSN: | 2043-6866 0030-7270 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/003072709602500107 |
| Popis: | In Zimbabwe, it was popularly believed that the rural areas were in grain surplus or at least self-sufficient. Therefore, after Independence, a subsidized and controlled public marketing system was developed to move all rural surpluses to urban households. This system, however, could not channel surpluses cheaply to deficit rural areas and therefore adversely affected rural food security. Recently, the Zimbabwean grain markets have been liberalized. More direct channels for rural consumers to access surplus production through the market have emerged which can potentially cut the marketing costs. These channels were studied in a food deficit area, Buhera District, and they are presented using a geographical information system (GIS) to demonstrate the spatial patterns in food purchases. The fieldwork took place during the first drought since liberalization and offers insights into the changing dynamics of this rural market at a time of food security stress. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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