Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics Food Security Group

The African Agricultural Markets Program (AAMP) aimed to enhance regional capacity, policy dialogue, and coordination on agricultural input and output markets through a series of policy seminars, training, and analytical work.

Training materials were developed for this project and delivered in a series of seminars.

Seminar: “Agricultural Risks Management in Africa: Taking Stock of What Has and Hasn’t Worked” (Lilongwe, Malawi, September 6–10, 2010)

Training Materials

• Food price stabilization: Concepts and exercises. Nicholas Minot.
• Generating random numbers in Excel
• Model of food price stabilization

Seminar: “Food Prices Variability: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Options” (Maputo, Mozambique, January 25–30, 2010)

Training Materials

• Determinants of price level: the role of production cost and farm productivity. Steven Haggblade
  • spreadsheet example
• Marketing Margins and Marketing Costs. T.S. Jayne
  • spreadsheet example
• Analyzing price seasonality. Asfaw Negassa and Shahidur Rashid
  • spreadsheet example
  • Review of Questions: Seasonality Analysis
• Measuring food price transmission. Nicholas Minot.
  • spreadsheet example
• Analyzing the interplay of macro and food policies. Shahidur Rashid.
  • spreadsheet example
• Impact of staple food price changes on households. Nicholas Minot.
  • spreadsheet example
• Price analysis exercise
  
  • spreadsheet examples: Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, World

Seminar: “Fertilizer Policy Symposium” (Livingstone, Zambia, June 15–19, 2009)

Training Materials

• Workshop Training Module. Getting Fertilizers to Farmers: How to do it? Who should do it? and Why it Should be Done?
• Objectives, outcomes, and trade-offs associated with alternative fertilizer promotion programs.
• What determines the cost of fertilizer at the farm gate? Cost build-up analysis.
• Fertilizer Supply Cost Components, Malawi. (spreadsheet)
• Fertilizer profitability analysis
• Fertilizer Profitability (spreadsheet)
• Experiences and lessons learned with alternative fertilizer promotion efforts
• Fertilizer Policy Toolkit – an Interactive Policy Tool

Seminar: “Trade in Food Staples: Promoting Price Stability and Food Security through Intra-Regional Trade” (Nairobi, Kenya, December 9–11, 2008)

Training Materials

• Presentations
  • Module 1.1. Kenani
  • Module 1.2.a. Spatial Tools for Food Policy Analysis
  • Module 1.2.b. Gains from trade. Nicholas Minot
  • Module 1.2.c. Import and Export Parity Prices
  • Module 1.3.b. Measuring Price Movements. Haggblade
• Example spreadsheets
  • Exercise 1.2.b. Gains from trade
  • Exercise 1.2.c. Import and export parity
  • Exercise 1.3.a. Price Analysis
  • Exercise 1.3.b. Winners and Losers

Training Modules

Unit 1. Smallholder Farm Productivity

• Module 1.1. Production Cost and Farm Productivity. Haggblade (spreadsheet)
• Module 1.2. Fertilizer Supply Chain in Africa. Bumb (spreadsheet)
• Module 1.3. Fertilizer Profitability. Rashid and Minot (spreadsheet)
• Module 1.4. Options for Raising Productivity among Resource-Poor Farmers. Haggblade (spreadsheet)

Unit 2. Smallholder Commercialization

• Module 2.1. Factors Affecting Smallholder Commercialization. Jayne and Burke (spreadsheet)
• Module 2.2. Modeling Smallholder Commercialization. Minot (spreadsheet)
• Module 2.3. Macro Effects on Smallholder Commercialization. Rashid and Minot (spreadsheet)

Unit 3. Price Analysis

• Module 3.1. Analyzing Price Seasonality. Negassa and Rashid (spreadsheet)
• Module 3.2. Measuring Food Price Transmission. Minot (spreadsheet)
• Module 3.3. Households Ipact of Staple Food Price Changes. Minot (spreadsheet)
• Module 3.4. Food Price Stabilization. Minot (spreadsheet)

Unit 4. Regional Trade

• Module 4.1. Regional Trade Agreements. Kenani
• Module 4.2. Import and Export Parity Pricing. Haggblade (spreadsheet)
• Module 4.3. Marketing Margins and Marketing Costs. Jayne (spreadsheet)
• Module 4.4. Winners and Losers from Regional Trade. Minot (spreadsheet)