Enabling Small-scale Maize Marketing and Processing to Assure Supplies of Low-cost Staples

Billy Mwiinga, J. J. Nijhoff (), David Tschirley, Michael T. Weber (), Thomas S. Jayne (), Pedro Arlindo, Gelson Tembo and James Shaffer
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Billy Mwiinga: Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University

No 66, International Development Policy Syntheses from Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University

Abstract: The purpose of this policy synthesis is to examine the role of low-cost food staples, such as maize grain and mugaiwa,and the small-scale trading and milling sectors that provide them, in ensuring poor consumers’ access to affordable food. We focus on this marketing season’s maize deficit in Zambia, and on current and past experience in Mozambique. We then identify opportunities for governments and the private sector to increase access to affordable food among rural and urban consumers on a regular basis, with especially high payoffs during crises.

Keywords: food security; food policy; maize; low-cost food staples (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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