On the discovery of millet prices in Mali

Vitale, Jeffrey D.; Bessler, David A.

doi:10.1111/j.1435-5957.2006.00068.x

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“…Sorghum and millet respond in an expected manner to their own price and the model is even able to recover symmetry conditions, unlike the paradoxical findings of DeJanvry et al (1991) where subsistence needs resulted in a negative supply response to higher prices. This could be explained by the liberalization of the cereal markets, which began in the late 1980s, and has provided producers in the cotton zone with adequate markets for their cereals (Vitale and Bessler, 2006). Moreover, producers in the cotton zone have benefited from spillover effects that have increased cereal productivity along with the advances in cotton, enabling many producers to generate a cereal surplus.…”

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Estimating the supply response of cotton and cereal crops in smallholder production systems: recent evidence from Mali

Vitale

Djourra

Sidibé

2009

Agricultural Economics

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Cotton is one of the most important crops in West Africa and is a major catalyst of economic development in rural areas, but the sector has suffered from a decline in the world cotton price after 1999. This article exploits an unusual data set following 82 farmers over 14 years, from 1994 through 2007, to estimate a Nerlovian supply response model for cotton, maize, sorghum, and millet in long-term rotation. The resulting system of equations is estimated with two-stage least squares (2SLS), showing that this sample of Malian cotton producers have responded to prices in a relatively inelastic manner, with supply elasticities only about one-half of those estimated for producers in developed countries. Policy reforms could help producers respond more easily to prices changes, as well as to raise average productivity levels. Copyright (c) 2009 International Association of Agricultural Economists.

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Estimating the supply response of cotton and cereal crops in smallholder production systems: recent evidence from Mali

Vitale

Djourra

Sidibé

2009

Agricultural Economics

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“…We follow the methodology of Vitale and Bessler (2006) and Haigh et al (2004). Vector autoregressive (VAR) models are used to analyse the economic relationship between a set of interrelated variables.…”

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Transmission of World Prices to Ugandan Coffee Growers in a Liberalised Economy

Musumba

Gupta

2013

Development Policy Review

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This article examines the transmission of world coffee prices to the price received by Ugandan coffee growers by means of Directed Acyclic Graphs which reveal the flow of information from the spot indicator price to the London futures price and then to the growers' price. A positive shock in the futures and indicator prices has respectively a positive and negative effect on the growers' price, and Forecast Error Variance Decomposition shows that uncertainty is attributable to own price, London futures price, and indicator price, in rank order. The article recommends that the Ugandan Coffee Development Authority should provide information on both futures and indicator prices to the growers.

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“…In a similar setting Vitale and Bessler (2006) study prices of millet (a staple commodity in much of the Sahel) in markets in Mali. The cities of Tombouctou and Mopti are typically caloric deficit population centers, located at the edge of the desert; whereas Sikasso and Koutiala, in the more humid production zones, typically experience caloric surpluses.…”

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