Plans for 2011
In 2011, the project will launch two more surveys: one focused on mango producers in East Java and the other concentrating on horticultural growers in the commercialized north coast region of Java. The project will also move into the analysis and interpretation of the results of the surveys. The focus of the analysis will be the process of transformation of high-value agriculture in Indonesia, both from the perspective of growers who are adapting to the high quality and food safety demands of modern retail channels and from the perspective of consumers, whose rising income and changing shopping patterns are driving these transformations. Four Indonesian graduate students at the University of Adelaide will be using the data for their Ph.D. dissertation papers, in collaboration with researchers from IFPRI, Michigan State University, and the University of Adelaide.
PROJECT 2: AFRICAN AGRICULTURAL MARKETS PROGRAM (AAMP) IFPRI Team:
Project Duration: Objectives of project
Nicholas Minot and Shahidur Rashid February 2009- February 2010
The African Agricultural Markets Program (AAMP) was launched by the COMESA Ministers of Agriculture at their fifth meeting in Mahe, Seychelles in March 2008. AAMP is one of the key programs within the Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development Program (CAADP) Pillar 2. AAMP is a regional program to support enhanced access to regional markets, trade, and private sector participation in agriculture. AAMP aims to enhance regional capacity, policy dialogue, and coordination on agricultural input and output markets through a series of policy seminars, training, and analytical work. The program originally covered seven countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. In 2010, additional funding made it possible to add Rwanda and Burundi to the list.
Research Approach
AAMP aims to enhance regional capacity, policy dialogue, and coordination on agricultural input and output markets through a series of policy seminars, training, and analytical work. Five of the six events have consisted of a two-day policy seminar for policymakers and other senior officials, combined with a two-day training course on the same topic for more junior analysts.
Progress, Research Results, and Major Research Findings in 2010
The project organized three international events in 2010. In January, the project organized a two-day policy seminar and a two-day training course in Maputo. The topic of both was the causes and consequences of changes in food prices in sub-Saharan Africa. There were about 45 participants, including members of Parliament, government officials, representatives of non-governmental organizations, and journalists from seven countries in southern and eastern Africa. The seminar examined price transmission, the effect of state marketing boards, price trends, and food price policy in response to the food crisis of 2007-08. The training course made use of numerous Excel-based exercises to explore price analysis methods. The technical side of this event was organized by Nicholas Minot. In June, the project organized a two-day workshop in Dar es Salaam on agricultural and food policy. The audience consisted of journalists from southern and eastern Africa, and the material was designed in a non-technical way to help these participants interpret price trends and food policy decisions.
In September, the project organized another two-day seminar combined with a two-day
training course held in Lilongwe. The topic was risk management in agriculture and covered weather insurance, warehouse receipt systems, buffer stocks, strategic grain reserves, commodity exchanges, and the use of futures and options. The technical side of this event was organized by Shahidur Rashid.
Plans for 2011
The sixth and last event of the project will be a seminar and training course on smallholder commercialization, to be held in April in Kigali. The event is being organized by researchers from Michigan State University; IFPRI researchers will be participating both as presenters during the policy seminar and as trainers. In addition, researchers are gathering all the presentations and exercises prepared for the six training courses, revising and expanding them to be self-contained units, and posting them on the web. Finally, IFPRI and MSU researchers will be involved in converting the reports and papers prepared under the project into journal articles and books.
2010 Internal Program Review-Markets, Trade and Institutions Division
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