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dc.contributor.authorKaluwa, Ben
dc.contributor.authorChilowa, Wycliffe
dc.coverage.spatialMalawi.en
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T14:00:04Z
dc.date.available2016-04-19T14:00:04Z
dc.date.issued1991
dc.identifier.citationKaluwa, B. and Chilowa, W. (1991) Malawi: food marketing liberalisation and household food security: preliminary results from baseline surveys. In: Rukuni, M. and Wyckoff, J.B. (eds.) Market reforms, research policies and SADCC food security. Harare: UZ/MSU Food Security Research in Southern Africa Project, pp. 104-120.en
dc.identifier.isbn0-7974-1000-7
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/11291
dc.descriptionA baseline survey on food marketing liberalization in Malawi.en
dc.description.abstractThe marketing of food crops, typically produced by smallholder farmers, was liberalised in 1987 in response to: ° rising transportation and other costs and falling commodity prices on the world market; and, ° structural problems within the state marketing board — the Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (ADMARC) — which had over-extended its operations. These problems, combined with cross-subsidies on an extensive country-wide network of some 1,139 markets together with food crop marketing operations (including the maintenance of strategic grain reserves) led to unprecedented financial difficulties for ADMARC in the 1985-86 trading year. Private traders had always operated in Malawi and their operations had official recognition but no legal basis. Hence, their operations tended to be small-scale except where they operated as agents of ADMARC. The Agricultural General Purpose Act of 1987 established a legal basis for private trader operations defining eligibility criteria and rules of conduct. The market liberalisation programme has been implemented as part of wider reforms under the structural adjustment programmes initiated in 1981.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThe project is funded by USAID (Southern Africa Regional Programme).en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUZ/MSU Food Security Research in Southern Africa Project, Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, University of Zimbabween
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/en
dc.subjectAgricultureen
dc.subjectRural Developmenten
dc.subjectTradeen
dc.titleMalawi: food marketing liberalisation and household food security: preliminary results from baseline surveysen
dc.typeBook chapteren
dc.rights.holderUZ /MSU Food Sccurily Research in Southern Africa Projecten


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