 Smallholder Cropping and Input Responses to Changes in Expected Prices and Market Access in Central and Northern Mozambique, 2008‐2011David Mather, Benedito Cunguara and David Tschirley () No 245913, Food Security Collaborative Working Papers from Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics Abstract: Recent analysis of domestic prices of key staple crops in several major retail markets in Mozambique finds that due to increased demand from both international and domestic sources, since 2008, the country’s consumers and producers of staple crops appear to have entered a new higher-price environment for domestic food staples. This situation creates both a challenge and an opportunity for Mozambique, which is commonly referred to as the food price dilemma. In short, the dilemma for the Government of Mozambique (GoM)policymakers is that urban consumers (and the majority of rural households who are net buyers of key staple foods like maize) prefer lower food prices (relative to other prices in the economy) as this improves their welfare. Keywords: International Development; Production Economics; Productivity Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:midcwp:245913 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Food Security Collaborative Working Papers from Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics Contact information at EDIRC. |
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