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Enabling Small-scale Maize Marketing and Processing to Assure Supplies of Low-cost Staples

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Billy Mwiinga (Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University)
J. J. Nijhoff ()
David Tschirley
Michael T. Weber
T. S. Jayne
Pedro Arlindo
Gelson Tembo
James Shaffer

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The purpose of this policy synthesis is to examine the role of low-cost food staples, such as maize grain and mugaiwa,and the small-scale trading and milling sectors that provide them, in ensuring poor consumers’ access to affordable food. We focus on this marketing season’s maize deficit in Zambia, and on current and past experience in Mozambique. We then identify opportunities for governments and the private sector to increase access to affordable food among rural and urban consumers on a regular basis, with especially high payoffs during crises.

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Paper provided by Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University in its series International Development Policy Syntheses with number 66.

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Date of creation: 2003
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Keywords: food security; food policy; maize; low-cost food staples;

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Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy

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  1. SIMA Technical Team, 1997. "Designing Market-based Approaches to Short and Long-run Emergency Assistance in Africa," International Development Collaborative Policy Briefs MZ-MINAG-FL-11E, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. [Downloadable!]
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