Policy briefs

Between 2005 and 2010, cattle producers in Mali faced price disincentives. This was mainly due to inefficiencies in the country’s [...]

Between 2005 and 2010, rice producers in Burkina Faso received higher prices than equivalent world prices, indicating that they faced [...]

Regulated cotton prices in Burkina Faso have led to higher domestic prices and incentives to production. Although fixed prices, which [...]

To make the URT’s rice sector more completive, MAFAP analysis suggests: • promoting investments at the farm level to help [...]

Although coffee is the URT’s second most important agricultural export, coffee growers receive prices which are lower than those they [...]

Public expenditure on agriculture and rural development in Burkina Faso has not adequately targeted the main factors which depress producers’ [...]

Kenyan smallholder tea farmers generally received prices closer to those in international markets. This reflects the country’s liberalized market structure for [...]

Kenya´s cattle producers are currently hindered by the structure and functioning of the domestic market, recurring drought, the prevalence of [...]

Although cotton is a major export crop in the URT, domestic cotton farmers received lower prices than what they could [...]

Because of inadequate incentives and low technology inputs, nearly 80 percent of all the wheat produced in Ethiopia is consumed [...]