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Title:Food Aid and Food Markets: Lessons from Mozambique
Authors:Tschirley, DavidISNI
Donovan, CynthiaISNI
Weber, Michael T.ISNI
Year:1996
Periodical:Food Policy
Volume:21
Issue:2
Period:May
Pages:189-209
Language:English
Geographic term:Mozambique
Subjects:food aid
food market
maize
Economics and Trade
Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
External link:https://doi.org/10.1016/0306-9192(95)00078-X
Abstract:A consensus has emerged on food aid policy, acknowledging the importance of short-run relief considerations, while emphasizing that such policy must be driven by a long-run, developmental perspective. This requires explicit attention to the effects of food aid on food markets. Yet it has long been clear that short and long-run objectives of food aid may conflict. This tension stands in high relief in Mozambique. The present paper examines the factors determining the effects of yellow maize food aid on markets for yellow maize and white maize (the staple crop) in Mozambique. The paper finds that food aid has helped fuel the growth of a competitive small-scale milling industry and informal marketing system; yellow and white maize are substitutes in consumption; and continued availability of yellow maize food aid at prices well below import parity will depress incentives for producers and traders to invest in the white maize production and marketing system. Recommendations for reforming the monetized food aid programme and coordinating it more effectively with emergency aid conclude the paper. Much of the data used in the paper come from an agricultural market information system (SIMA) in the Ministry of Agriculture of Mozambique which has been collecting price and qualitative market supply data from selected points in the country since april 1991. Bibliogr., notes, ref. sum.
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