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West African Experience with the World Rice Crisis, 2007-2008- Working Paper 242

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  • Jenny Aker, Steven Block, Vijaya Ramachandran, and Peter Timmer

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Rice production in Africa has tended to be low-yielding, geographically dispersed, and uncompetitive against low-cost Asian imports, even when protected by high freight costs and substantial trade barriers. Skyrocketing prices in world markets in 2007-08 were a chock to African consumers, producers, and governments alike. When international rice prices were relatively low, rice imports did not pose economic or political problems for West African governments. Extremely expensive imports reversed that equation. This paper addresses the response to that reversal first by presenting a historical review of trends in the West African rice sector and, second, by assessing the effect of world rice prices on domestic prices, primarily at the consumer level. This paper has appeared as a chapter in The Rice Crisis – Markets, Policies and Food Security (FAO and Earthscan, 2010)

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  • Jenny Aker, Steven Block, Vijaya Ramachandran, and Peter Timmer, 2011. "West African Experience with the World Rice Crisis, 2007-2008- Working Paper 242," Working Papers 242, Center for Global Development.
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    1. Demont, Matty & Fiamohe, Rose & Kinkpé, A. Thierry, 2017. "Comparative Advantage in Demand and the Development of Rice Value Chains in West Africa," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 96(C), pages 578-590.
    2. Boansi, David, 2013. "Response of rice yields in Ghana: some prescriptions for future rice policy," MPRA Paper 47889, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Ralitza Dimova & Ira N. Gang & Monnet B.P. Gbakou & Daniel Hoffman, 2014. "The Impact of Food and Economic Crises on Diet and Nutrition," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 50(12), pages 1687-1699, December.
    4. Lukas Kornher & Matthias Kalkuhl, 2015. "A Typology for Price-related Food and Nutrition Risks and Policy Responses," FOODSECURE Technical papers 5, LEI Wageningen UR.
    5. Ralitza Dimova & Monnet Gbakou, 2012. "A right price for rice? Côte d’Ivoire insights into the welfare implications of the ‘global food crisis’," Global Development Institute Working Paper Series 17212, GDI, The University of Manchester.
    6. Danielle Resnick, 2013. "Personalistic Policy-Making in a Vibrant Democracy: Senegal's Fragmented Response to the 2007/08 Food price Crisis," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2013-015, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    7. Michal Monit & André Pina & Paulo Ferrão, 2016. "Linking Material Flow Analysis with Resilience Using Rice: A Case Study in Global, Visual MFA of a Key Food Product," Resources, MDPI, vol. 5(1), pages 1-15, January.

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