Structured Grain Trading Systems in Africa

2013
The manual covers the various components of structured trading systems. It goes from considering post-harvest management to commercial storage and warehousing, to trade financing and commodity exchanges as well as how to organize such trading systems in Africa.
Countries: General Africa
Commodities: Cereals in general
Topics: Post-harvest handling and aggregation, Risk management (Analysis), Information-sharing, trust and transparency, Contract mechanisms, Financial services, Non-financial services, Infrastructural elements, Institutional elements, Farm/firm-level upgrading, Governance (linkage) upgrading, Inputs and services support upgrading, Business enabling environment upgrading, Contract farming, Value chain finance, Risk management (Cross-sectional), Space and time factors
Personal author: Vincent Fautrel, Lamon Rutten, Andrew Shepherd, Paul Mundy
Publisher: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), Eastern Africa Grain Council (EAGC)
Category: Field-based materials
Level suitability: Intermediate
Type: Discussion
Format: Document
References (Download): EN
