Market-Oriented Strategies to Improve Household Access to Food: Experience from Sub-Saharan Africa

Thomas S. Jayne (), D. L. Tschirley, John M. Staatz, James D. Shaffer, Michael T. Weber (), Munhamo Chisvo and Mulinge Mukumbu

No 15, International Development Papers from Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University

Abstract: The objectives of this report are to identify market-oriented strategies to alleviate both chronic and transitory food insecurity, and to examine the interactions between short-run targeting mechanisms and longer-run strategies designed to alleviate the chronic causes of inadequate access to food. The main premise of the report is that sustained improvements in household access to food in Sub-Saharan Africa require the development of more reliable food and input markets that (a) create incentives to adopt cost-reducing investments at various stages in the food system; and (b) offer incentives for rural households to shift from a subsistence-oriented pattern of production and consumption to more productive systems based on specialization and gains from exchange.

Keywords: food security; food policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1994
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