Meeting Food Aid and Price Stabilization Objectives through Local Grain Purchase: A Review of the 1996 Experience

Wolday Amha, Julie Stepanek, Thomas Jayne () and Asfaw Negassa

No 55596, Food Security Collaborative Working Papers from Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics

Abstract: The objective of this paper is to identify factors that can improve the ability of future local purchase activities to achieve a range of national food policy objectives. This analysis reviews the design and implementation of 1996 local purchase activities in Ethiopia in relation to three key policy objectives: price stabilization for farmers; promoting the development of a competitive and low-cost food marketing system; and procuring food aid resources in a cost effective manner.

Keywords: Food; Security; and; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.55596

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