False Promise or False Premise? The Experience of Food and Input Market Reform in Eastern and Southern Africa

Small-scale portable photovoltaic-battery-LED systems with submersible LED units to replace kerosene-based artisanal fishing lamps for Sub-Saharan African lakes

“…A successful approach in achieving the beneficial impacts requires support from international and national donors/governments, and probably private funds. Generating appropriate co-involvement and co-investment of local primary industry, national governments, and the wider international community for an effective and ongoing outcomes is likely to be a challenging, yet rewarding road if undertaken judiciously [32].…”

Structure, Conduct and Performance of Grain Trading in Tigray and its Impact on Demand for Commodity Exchange: The Case Maychew, Mokone, Alemata, Mekelle and Himora

“…Lack of marketing infrastructure like roads, information communication technology (ICT), storage facility, transportation facility and soon will also increase the transaction cost of creating time, space and form utility (Jayne et al, 2002 andRapsomanikis andPanayiotis, 2007). To make things worst, lack of cost effective and efficient contract enforcement mechanism by the judicial system of developing economies will farther increase the expected transaction cost of any contract (Jayne et al, 2002).…”

Globalization and restructuring of African commodity flows

“…Because of the many vested interests in the crop parastatals, the process has often been long and tortuous. Crop exports have in many cases still not been fully liberalized, and in a number of countries the process of market liberalization has even been reversed (Cooksey 2003;Jayne et al 2002).…”