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

"Smallholder-led Agricultural Commercialization and Poverty Reduction:  How to Achieve It?" Policy Symposium: COMESA/ACTESA/MINAGRI. Lemigo Hotel, Kigali, Rwanda. 20-22 April 2011.

• Agenda
• Background Papers
  • Agricultural Commercialization, Rural Transformation and Poverty Reduction: What have We Learned about How to Achieve It?  Policy Brief. April 2011.
  • Agricultural Commercialization, Rural Transformation and Poverty Reduction: What have We Learned about How to Achieve It?  T.S. Jayne, Steve Haggblade, Nicholas Minot, and Shahidur Rashid. Synthesis Report. April 2011.
• Presentations
  • Smallholder-led Agricultural Commercialization:  Implications for CAADP Country Investment Plans.  T.S. Jayne and Milu Muyanga.
  • Commercialization of smallholder in AAMP countries: policies and public spending. Shahidur Rashid.
  • Do Fertilizer Subsidies Crowd Out Organic Manure? Case Of Malawi. Stein Holden and  Rodney Lunduka.
  • Measuring the Impacts of Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy Program. Christopher Chibwana, Monica Fisher, Charles Jumbe and Gerald Shively.
  • Are There Enduring Benefits of Fertilizer Subsidies on Household Well-Being? Evidence from Malawi. J. Ricker-Gilbert and T.S. Jayne.
  • Productivity Gains from Improved Smallholder Farm Management. Steven Haggblade.
  • Climate Change & Food Security in Africa:  Vulnerabilities & Potential for Adaptation & Impact Mitigation Through Maize and Wheat Research Systems. Bekele Shiferaw.
  • Underappreciated Constraints to the Development of Commodity Exchanges in Africa: A Case Study of ZAMACE. Nicholas Sitko and T.S. Jayne.
  • Dynamic Pathways Into and Out of Poverty: A Case of Small Holder Farmers in Zambia. Diana J Banda, Priscilla Hamukwala, Steve Haggblade and Antony Chapoto.
  • Kigali Conference on Agribusiness Development in Africa. Ron Kopicki.
  • Contrasting Experiences in Cassava Commercialization in Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia. Maureen Chitundu, Cynthia Donovan, Steven Haggblade, Emma Kambewa, Josina Machel, Venancio Salegua.
  • Can Horticulture Pull African Smallholder Farmers Out of Poverty? Insights from Kenya, Mozambique, and Zambia.  David Tschirley, Munguzwe Hichaambwa, Miltone Ayieko, Val Kelly, and Jenny Cairns.
  • Experience De Capad Dans La Commercialisation Du Riz. (French) Anick Sezibera.
  • Experiences of Successful Smallholder Coffee Producers in Uganda. David Muwonge.
  • Policies and Investments in Support of Smallholder Commercialization: The Case of Kenya. Mr Muia.
  • Policies and Investments in Support of Smallholder Commercialization: The Case of Malawi. Christine Mtambo.
  • Policies and Investments in Support of Smallholder Commercialization: The Case of Rwanda. Francois Nsenguyumva
  • Contract farming in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges.  Nicholas Minot.
  • Farmers' Access to Markets and Services: Preliminary Findings.  Antony Chapoto, Jordan Chamberlin, and T.S. Jayne. 
  • How Does Output Price Risk Affect Smallholder Input Use Decisions? The Case of Kenya and Zambia. Gelson Tembo, Paswel Marenya, T.S. Jayne and Robert Myers.
  • Impact of Maize and Legume Production Technologies on Food Security and Poverty in Africa. Menale Kassie, Bekele Shiferaw, Solomon Asfaw, and Mulubrhan Amare.
  • Policy Impact Evaluation: A Quick Overview.  Gelson Tembo.

"Successful Smallholder Commercialization: How do you do it?" Training Workshop: COMESA/ACTESA/MINAGRI. Lemigo Hotel, Kigali, Rwanda. 18 -19 April 2011.

• Agenda
• Presentations
  • Econometric Models of Market Participation. W.J. Burke and T.S. Jayne.
  • Smallholder-led Agricultural Commercialization: Connecting the Policy Issues. T.S. Jayne and Milu Muyanga.
  • Model of Foreign Exchange. Nicholas Minot.

• Agenda
• Agricultural Risk Management in Africa: A Summary Issues and Experiences
• Risks Management in African Agriculture A Review of Experiences. Shahidur Rashid and T.S. Jayne.
• Background Papers
  • NEPAD Study to Explore Further Options for Food-Security Reserve Systems in Africa. June 2004.
  • The Value of Accurate Crop Production Forecasts. T.S. Jayne and Shahidur Rashid.
  • Food price stabilization: Lessons from eastern and southern Africa. Nicholas Minot.
  • Implementing Warehouse Receipt Systems in Africa Potential and Challenges. Gideon Onumah.
  • Purpose and Potential for Commodity Exchanges in African Economies. Shahidur Rashid, Alex Winter-Nelson, and Philip Garcia.
  • Agricultural insurance in Sub-Saharan Africa: can it work? Ruth Vargas Hill.
• Presentations
  • Risk Management in African Agriculture: Workshop objectives and organization. Shahidur Rashid.
  • Towards an Agricultural Risk Management Framework. Carlos Enrique Arce.
  • Food price stabilization: Lessons for eastern & southern Africa. Nicholas Minot.
  • Role of the National Cereals & Produce Board (NCPB) in Producer Price Stabilization in Kenya. David M. Nyameino.
  • Risk Management in African Agriculture: Price policies in Ethiopia. Shahidur Rashid and Solomon Lemma.
  • Price Stabilization and Strategic Grain Reserves: The Case of Malawi. Paul Thangata and Solomon Lemma.
  • Weather Index Insurance for Agriculture: Lessons Learned. Carlos Enrique Arce.
  • Risk Management in African Agriculture: Overview of production risks. Shahidur Rashid.
  • Index-Based Weather Insurance: A Case for Malawi. Eric Emmanuel Chapola.
  • Use of Weather Index as a tool to reduce food insecurity and vulnerability: – a case for Ethiopia. Almaz Demessie.
  • Index-Based Weather Insurance for Farmers in Malawi. David Rohrbach.
  • Crop Forecasting Accuracy and Price Instability. T.S. Jayne and Shahidur Rashid.
  • Implementing Warehouse Receipt Systems (WRS) in Africa: Potential, Challenges and Prospects. Gideon E. Onumah.
  • The Purpose and Potential for Agricultural Commodity Exchanges in Africa. Alex Winter-Nelson.
  • Setting up Agricultural Commodit Exchanges in Africa. Ian Goggin.
  • Commodity Price Hedging and Supply/Price Stabilization in Malawi. SAFEX Call Option. David Rohrbach.
  • ZAMACE. Zambia Agricultural Commodities Exchange. Experiences and Constraints.
• Training Materials
• Food price stabilization: Concepts and exercises. Nicholas Minot.
• Generating random numbers in Excel
• Model of food price stabilization

Seminar: "Role of the Media in Fostering Effective Agricultural Policies" (Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, June 30, 2010)

• Agenda
• Participant List
• Aims, Goals and Objectives of Workshop, Jones Govereh.
• Agriculture in the News: Getting Coverage of Market Issues, Michael Rubinstein.
• Toward Unpacking Barriers to Effective Coverage of Agricultural Issues, Eric Chinje.
• Regional Trade in Agriculture: Winners and Losers, Steve Njukia.
• Price Volatility: Protecting Farmers and Consumers, Steve Haggblade.
• Developing a Biosafety Law Lessons from the Kenyan Experience, Margaret Karembu.
• Theory and Practice of Fertilizer Subsidies in Africa, B. L. Bumb.
• Lessons Learned, Steve Haggblade.

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

• Agenda
• Training Agenda
• Conference Summary
  • Variation in Staple Food Prices in Eastern and Southern Africa: A Synthesis.
  • Variation in Staple Food Prices in Eastern and Southern Africa: Causes, Consequences and Policy Options
  • Variação nos preços de produtos alimentares básicos na África Austral e Oriental
• Background Documents
  • Transmission of World Food Price Changes to African Markets and its Effect on Household Welfare. Nicholas Minot.
  • Are Staple Food Markets in Africa Efficient? Spatial Price Analyses and Beyond. Shahidur Rashid, Nicholas Minot, with assistance from Solomon Lemma and Befekadu Behute.
  • Staple food prices in Mozambique. Cynthia Donovan and Emilio Tostão.
  • Staple food prices in Kenya. Joshua Ariga, T.S. Jayne, and Stephen Njukia.
  • Staple food prices in Malawi. Nicholas Minot.
  • Staple food prices in Zambia. Antony Chapoto, Jones Govereh, Steven Haggblade and Thomas Jayne.
  • Staple food prices in Tanzania. Nicholas Minot.
  • Staple food prices in Uganda. Steve Haggblade and Reno Dewina.
  • Staple Food Prices in Ethiopia. Shahidur Rashid
• Seminar Presentations
  • Transmission of world food prices to African markets. Nicholas Minot
  • Are staple food markets in Africa efficient? Shahidur Rashid and Nicholas Minot.
  • The Impact of Trade Barriers and Market Interventions on Maize Price Unpredictability: Evidence from Eastern and Southern Africa. A. Chapoto and T. S. Jayne.
  • Preços de Produtos Alimentares Básicos em Mozambique. Victorino Xavier, Cynthia Donovan, e Emilio Tostão.
  • Staple food prices in Kenya. Joshua Ariga, T.S. Jayne, and Stephen Njukia.
  • Staple food prices in Malawi. Nicholas Minot
  • Staple food prices in Zambia. Antony Chapoto, Jones Govereh, Steven Haggblade and Thomas Jayne.
  • Staple food prices in Tanzania. Nicholas Minot.
  • Staple food prices in Uganda. Monica Kansiime-Owuor.
  • Staple food prices in Ethiopia. Shahidur Rashid and Asfaw Negassa.
  • Buffer stocks (P. Stocks) for food price stabilization. S. Rashid, N. Minot, and T. Jayne.
  • Price controls in food markets. Nicholas Minot.
  • Policy options for influencing prices: Agricultural productivity and crop diversification. Steven Haggblade.
  • Policies for promoting efficiency in food markets. Nicholas Minot.
• 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, June 15-19, 2009)

• Conference Summary
  • Fertilizer Policy Seminar Proceedings
  • List of Participatnts: Training, Policy Seminar
• Background Documents
  • Getting Fertilizers to Farmers: How to do it? Who should do it? and Why it Should be Done? Key Policy Messages.
  • Fertilizer Subsidies in Eastern and Southern Africa. Thom Jayne, Nick Minot and Shahidur Rashid. Policy Synthesis #2.
  • Fertilizer Marketing in Eastern and Southern Africa. Steven Haggblade and Thomas Jayne. Policy Synthesis #1
• Seminar Presentations
  • Challenges in Developing Agricultural Input Markets in Africa. B. L. Bumb
  • Promoting Fertilizer Use in Africa: Current Issues and Empirical Evidence from the COMESA Region. T. Jayne, S. Rashid, N. Minot, S. Kasule
  • Fertiliser Joint Procurement: Issues and Options. Julius Mathende and Balu.L Bumb.
  • Suggestions for Developing Efficient Fertilizer Supply Chains in COMESA. Ron Kopicki
  • Fertilizer policy and use in Tanzania. Nicholas Minot.
  • Fertilizer in Ethiopia: Policies, Achievements, and Constraints. Shahidur Rashid.
  • Trends and Patterns in Fertilizer Use by Smallholder Farmers in Kenya, 1997-2008. T.S. Jayne and Joshua Ariga
  • The Fertilizer Market in Uganda: Policies and Challenges. Steven Kasule, Julian, Thembo & S. Rashid
  • Fertilizer subsidies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Nicholas Minot
  • Market-Friendly Support to Resource Poor Farmers. B. L. Bumb and D. I. Gregory
  • Implementation of the Abuja Declaration on Fertilizers for an African Green Revolution: A Progress Report. Maria Wanzala
• 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, 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

Presentations

• Government Involvement in African Food Markets: Toward Defining Constructive and Politically Feasible Roles. T.S. Jayne, Cris Muyunda, Antony Chapoto. DFID London. 21 October 2010
• Government Involvement in African Food Markets: Toward Defining Constructive and Politically Feasible Roles. T.S. Jayne, Cris Muyunda, Antony Chapoto. DFID Retreat. East Kilbride, Scotland. 18 October 2010

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)

Professional Publications

• Myers, Robert and T.S. Jayne (2012). “Multiple-Regime Spatial Price Transmission with an Application to Maize Markets in Southern Africa”. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 94(1): 174–188.

Media Coverage

• US lecturer urges strengthening of food forecast systems in Africa. The Post, September 9, 2010

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)
• Hotlinks
  • COMESA Programmes