African Agricultural Markets Programme

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Partners

• Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA): AAMP Project Manager
• The World Bank: Manager of the DfID Trust Funds financing AAMP
• Michigan State University (MSU): Analytical Team
• International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI): Analytical Team

Donor

• UK Department for International Development (DfID)

Objective

AAMP aims to enhance regional capacity, policy dialogue, and coordination on agricultural input and output markets through a series of policy seminars, training, and analytical work.

Project Overview

The African Agricultural Markets Programme (AAMP) was launched by the COMESA Ministers of Agriculture at their 5th meeting in Mahe, Seychelles in March 2008. AAMP is one of the key programmes within the Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development Programme (CAADP) Pillar 2. AAMP is a regional programme to support enhanced access to regional markets, trade, and private sector participation in agriculture. The programme is managed by the COMESA Secretariat in partnership with the World Bank and supported by the United Kingdom Department for International Development. AAMP aims to enhance regional capacity, policy dialogue, and coordination on agricultural input and output markets through a series of policy seminars, training, and analytical work. The programme currently covers both COMESA member and nonmember countries including Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.

Documentation

Seminar 1. Trade in Food Staples: Promoting Price Stability and Food Security through Intra-Regional Trade (Nairobi, December 9-11, 2008)

• Conference Summary
  • Policy Seminar Outline
  • Trade in Food Staples: Promoting Price Stability and Food Security
    through Intra-Regional Trade. AAMP Policy Briefing #1. December 2008.
  • AAMP Proceedings Report
  • Overview of Technical Briefings Modules
• Background Documents
  • Regional Trade in Food Staples: Prospects for Stimulating Agricultural Growth and Moderating Short-Term Food Security Crises in Eastern and Southern Africa. Steven Haggblade, Jones Govereh, Hunter Nielson, David Tschirley and Paul Dorosh.
  • The 2008/09 Food Price and Food Security Situation in Eastern and Southern Africa: Implications for Immediate and Longer Run Responses. T.S. Jayne, Antony Chapoto, Isaac Minde, and Cynthia Donovan. Draft
  • Responding to the food price crisis in Eastern and Southern Africa: Policy options for national and regional action. Draft.
  • Regional Economic Integration in Africa: A Review of Problems and Prospects with a Case Study of COMESA. Alemayehu Geda, and Haile Kebret. Journal of African Economies, v. 17, #3, pp. 357–394
• Seminar Presentations
  • 1.a. Regional Trade Agreements and Cross Border Trade in Food Staples in Eastern and Southern Africa. Helen Kenani
  • 1.b. Increasing Food Security Through Regional Grain Trade. Bridget Okumu
  • 2.a. The 2008/09 Food Pricing and Food Security Situation in Eastern and Southern Africa: Implications for Immediate and Longer-Run Responses. T. Jayne, A. Chapoto, I. Minde, and C. Donovan
  • 2.b. Regional Trade in Food Staples: Stimulating Agricultural Growth and Improving Food Security in Eastern and Southern Africa. Steven Haggblade
• 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

Seminar 2. Fertilizer Policy Symposium (Livingstone, June 15-19, 2009)

• Conference Summary
• Background Documents
• Seminar Presentations
• Training Materials

Seminar 3. Instability in Staple Food Prices: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Options (January 2010, venue to be determined) 

• Conference Summary
• Background Documents
• Seminar Presentations
• Training Materials

Contact Information

• Michigan State University
  • Steven Haggblade (blade@msu.edu)
  • Thomas Jayne (jayne@msu.edu)
• International Food Policy Research Institute
  • Nick Minot (n.minot@cgiar.org)
  • Shahidur Rashid (s.rashid@cgiar.org)
• COMESA AAMP Project Management
  • AAMP Manager: Dr. Cris Muyunda (cmuyunda@comesa.int)
  • AAMP Senior Policy Coordinator: Dr. Jones Govereh (jgovereh@comesa.int)
  • AAMP Lutangu Mukuti, Marketing Specialist (lmukuti@comesa.int)
• World Bank AAMP Team
  • Josef Loening (j.loening@worldbank.org)
  • Gbemisola Oseni (goseni@worldbank.org)
  • Patricia Seex (pseex@worldbank.org)
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