This article intends to provide pragmatic guidance for avoiding the more severe problems of
food price instability in east and southern Africa. I first summarize the empirical record of …

We document the state of the extension system in Ethiopia and review the empirical
evidence on the links between the key extension services provided, adoption of modern …

The structure of Ethiopian cereal markets has undergone dramatic changes over the past
several decades. To a large extent, these shifts mirror the underlying ideological positions of …

The development of warehouse receipt systems (WRS) emerged as an important means of
improving the performance of agricultural marketing systems in Africa following liberalisation …

This article reviews how financialization has affected the iron ore market since the turn of the
century. We account for the existence of a Chinese iron ore futures market, the emergence of …

Agricultural production is prone to several risks which affect both producers and consumers.
In order to enhance investment and achieve a sustained increase in production, coherent …

Food price volatility and high transactions costs remain major problems in African food
markets. These persistent problems provide a strong theoretical justification for the …

Abstract While the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) is widely considered a successful
market institution, very little rigorous empirical investigation has been done on it. This paper …

Improving price discovery, linking smallholders to markets, reducing transactions costs, and
increasing agricultural export earnings are some of the popular claims about benefits of …

Futures markets promise improved price transparency and risk mitigation for staple
commodities important to many developing countries, but they can fail even in developed …