In an IFPRI Malawi brown bag research seminar on February 26, 2020 Rosemary Botha presented the findings of a recent IFPRI Malawi study, which analyzed whether providing better price information increases volumes sold through structured markets, sales ... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program
Policy Note 36: Market Information and Access to Structured Markets by Small Farmers and Traders
This Policy Note summarizes Working Paper 33, which examines the impact of providing price information from a commodity exchange to small farmers and traders of maize and soybean in central Malawi. Using data from a panel survey of 399 farmers and 78 t... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program
Working Paper 33: Market Information and Access to Structured Markets by Small Farmers and Traders
Working Paper 33 analyzes the effects of an action research experiment in central Malawi, in which four groups of smallholder farmers were provided with maize and soybean price information from a local commodity exchange during the 2019 marketing seaso... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program
Policy Note 33: Commodity Exchanges and Warehouse Receipts in Malawi
Malawi is unusual in having two active commodity exchanges (Comex): The Agricultural Commodity Exchange (ACE), established 2006, and Auction Holdings Commodity Exchange (AHCX) Ltd., established in 2013. In addition, Malawi has several parallel ‘systems’ that advance collateral financing using warehouse receipts. Policy Note 33 distils the findings of Working Paper 25, which analysed how Malawi's >> Read more Source: Malawi Strategy Support Program
Working Paper 25: Commodity Exchanges and Warehouse Receipts in Malawi
Malawi has a unique commodity exchange (Comex) landscape with two commodity exchanges: the Agriculture Commodity Exchange (ACE) and Auction Holdings Commodity Exchange (AHCX). In addition to these two commodity exchanges, there are parallel systems like the Warehouse receipt System (WRS) that advance collateral financing. The volumes traded at the Comex and WRS are only a >> Read more Source: Malawi Strategy Support Program