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  • 1
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    Quantitative Value Chain Analysis : An Application To Malawi (2010)
    Washington, D.C., : The World Bank,
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    UID:
    almafu_9958246229102883
    Format: 1 online resource (61 pages)
    Series Statement: Policy research working papers.
    Content: The Government of Malawi has since 2005 been pursuing a growth strategy mainly based on increasing the volume of agricultural exports. This entails that Malawi should endeavor to improve the competitiveness of its agricultural commodities so as to gain an increasing share of the regional and international markets. This paper analyzes the competitiveness of the country's key agricultural commodities - tobacco, maize, cotton, and rice - using prices that prevailed in the 2007/08 agricultural season. The paper employs a quantitative value chain methodology to assess the country's prospects for competitiveness and suggest weak links along the value chain that require attention in order to improve trade competitiveness. The results indicate that Malawi has some competitive advantage in the production and exportation of tobacco and cotton, and that this mostly derives from its low labor cost advantage. However, the results indicate that based on 2007/08 prices and costs, Malawi does not have competitive edge in maize and rice production for export. As such, Malawi would better pursue an import substitution strategy in these cereals, and perhaps only aim at the export market when regional market opportunities arise. Key factors that underpin Malawi's narrow competitiveness include the high cost of inorganic fertilizer and other inputs, low productivity, and the higher trader margins and intermediation costs along the value chains. Furthermore, farm gate prices in Malawi are higher than in other countries, and this undercuts its trade competitiveness.
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-5242
    URL: Volltext  (Deutschlandweit zugänglich)
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  • 2
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    Innovations in Food Trade : Rethinking Aflatoxin Management in East Africa (2020)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    UID:
    b3kat_BV048273789
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Content: Throughout the EAC, tests happen far away from the main production areas and only large firms have the wherewithal to comply. Similarly, at the consumer end of domestic and regional value chains, only large industrial mills perform regular tests and are subject to routine inspection. Meanwhile, small traders and SMEs can navigate around the regulatory system since borders are porous and small mills are rarely inspected. This situation not only leaves the EAC with little to no effective control over aflatoxins but precludes the payment of premiums to small farmers and offtakers that are needed to reward improvements at upstream stages of the value chain where aflatoxin problems begin
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/34846
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  • 3
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    Streamlining Technical Measured on Medical Products to Combat COVID-19 (2020)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    UID:
    b3kat_BV048273225
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Content: The urgency of effective responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and the reliance of many low-income countries on imports of medical products, requires new approaches to regulation of these products. The challenge will be particularly acute for the new tests to identify infection, drugs to alleviate symptoms and machines to aid recovery as well as vaccines that are all expected to be developed in the coming months. Increased transparency, information sharing and greater cooperation among agencies responsible for the approval and inspection of medical goods around the world can help officials in low-income countries implement their mandate more effectively while maximizing efficient access to these commodities. Responsible agencies should focus on implementing technical regulations to protect health and safety, including interception of counterfeit and substandard products, and avoid wasting resources and creating delays by maintaining procedural practices that may be better addressed through alternative risk management strategies or seeking to regulate quality issues, which are best left to the market. Where there is a need to rapidly approve, test and inspect new goods or varieties that have not previously been imported, such as new equipment and medicines, the adoption of mutual recognition and/or equivalence can provide effective mechanisms to avoid regulatory delays while maintaining high levels of safety
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/33825
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  • 4
    Online Resource
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    Quantitative Value Chain Analysis : An Application To Malawi (2010)
    Washington, D.C., : The World Bank,
    Details
    UID:
    edocfu_9958246229102883
    Format: 1 online resource (61 pages)
    Series Statement: Policy research working papers.
    Content: The Government of Malawi has since 2005 been pursuing a growth strategy mainly based on increasing the volume of agricultural exports. This entails that Malawi should endeavor to improve the competitiveness of its agricultural commodities so as to gain an increasing share of the regional and international markets. This paper analyzes the competitiveness of the country's key agricultural commodities - tobacco, maize, cotton, and rice - using prices that prevailed in the 2007/08 agricultural season. The paper employs a quantitative value chain methodology to assess the country's prospects for competitiveness and suggest weak links along the value chain that require attention in order to improve trade competitiveness. The results indicate that Malawi has some competitive advantage in the production and exportation of tobacco and cotton, and that this mostly derives from its low labor cost advantage. However, the results indicate that based on 2007/08 prices and costs, Malawi does not have competitive edge in maize and rice production for export. As such, Malawi would better pursue an import substitution strategy in these cereals, and perhaps only aim at the export market when regional market opportunities arise. Key factors that underpin Malawi's narrow competitiveness include the high cost of inorganic fertilizer and other inputs, low productivity, and the higher trader margins and intermediation costs along the value chains. Furthermore, farm gate prices in Malawi are higher than in other countries, and this undercuts its trade competitiveness.
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-5242
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  • 5
    Online Resource
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    Quantitative Value Chain Analysis : An Application To Malawi (2010)
    Washington, D.C., : The World Bank,
    Details
    UID:
    edoccha_9958246229102883
    Format: 1 online resource (61 pages)
    Series Statement: Policy research working papers.
    Content: The Government of Malawi has since 2005 been pursuing a growth strategy mainly based on increasing the volume of agricultural exports. This entails that Malawi should endeavor to improve the competitiveness of its agricultural commodities so as to gain an increasing share of the regional and international markets. This paper analyzes the competitiveness of the country's key agricultural commodities - tobacco, maize, cotton, and rice - using prices that prevailed in the 2007/08 agricultural season. The paper employs a quantitative value chain methodology to assess the country's prospects for competitiveness and suggest weak links along the value chain that require attention in order to improve trade competitiveness. The results indicate that Malawi has some competitive advantage in the production and exportation of tobacco and cotton, and that this mostly derives from its low labor cost advantage. However, the results indicate that based on 2007/08 prices and costs, Malawi does not have competitive edge in maize and rice production for export. As such, Malawi would better pursue an import substitution strategy in these cereals, and perhaps only aim at the export market when regional market opportunities arise. Key factors that underpin Malawi's narrow competitiveness include the high cost of inorganic fertilizer and other inputs, low productivity, and the higher trader margins and intermediation costs along the value chains. Furthermore, farm gate prices in Malawi are higher than in other countries, and this undercuts its trade competitiveness.
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-5242
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  • 6
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    The Costs and Profitability of Tobacco Compared to Other Crops in Zimbabwe (2013)
    Washington, DC : World Bank
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    UID:
    gbv_79759261X
    Format: Online-Ressource
    ISBN: 1932126198
    Series Statement: HNP discussion paper
    Content: This study compares the financial costs and returns to tobacco growing with twelve (traditional and non-traditional) alternative crops, looking at profitability, costs, labor intensity, financial support, technical infrastructure, land-suitability, marketing difficulties, world demand, and production risks. It aims to provide an improved understanding of the trade-offs farmers face in deciding what crops to grow. The analysis is based on an original set of 91 production budgets estimated in January 2001 specifically for this study. The study finds that tobacco is a highly profitable cash crop for both large and small farmers. however even if global demand for tobacco were to fall significantly in the future, the impact on employment and the broader economy would depend on the extent to which commercial farmers were able to switch to other high value export crops. Changes in Zimbabwe's land policy in 2001/2002 are likely to have a much larger impact on tobacco growing and exports and on the economy than demand-induced changes in the global market for tobacco.
    Language: English
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    Stabi Berlin
  • 7
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    Awakening Africa's sleeping giant : prospects for commercial agriculture in the Guinea Savannah zone and beyond ; this report is one of several outputs of the study on Competitve Commercial Agriculture for Africa (CCAA) (2009)
    Washington, DC : World Bank [u.a.]
    Details
    UID:
    gbv_160412816X
    Format: XII, 218 S. , graph. Darst., Kt.
    ISBN: 9780821379417 , 9789251063040 , 9780821379424
    Series Statement: Directions in development
    Note: Enth. Index , Past experience: Asia and Latin America vs. Sub-Saharan Africa -- Outlook for commercial agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Commodity-specific competitiveness analysis -- Factors affecting the competitiveness of African agriculture -- Potential social and environmental impacts of commercial agriculture -- Conclusions and recommendations: opportunities and challenges. , Literaturverz. S. 199 - 210
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780821379424
    Language: English
    Subjects: Economics
    RVK:
    QG 700
    RVK:
    QS 000
    Keywords: Afrika ; Landwirtschaftsentwicklung ; Agrarproduktion ; Agrarwelthandel ; Wettbewerbsfähigkeit
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
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  • 8
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    Quantitative Value Chain Analysis : An Application to Malawi (2012)
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    Details
    UID:
    gbv_797522921
    Format: Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Policy Research working paper WPS 5242
    Content: The Government of Malawi has since 2005 been pursuing a growth strategy mainly based on increasing the volume of agricultural exports. This entails that Malawi should endeavor to improve the competitiveness of its agricultural commodities so as to gain an increasing share of the regional and international markets. This paper analyzes the competitiveness of the country's key agricultural commodities -- tobacco, maize, cotton, and rice -- using prices that prevailed in the 2007/08 agricultural season. The paper employs a quantitative value chain methodology to assess the country's prospects for competitiveness and suggest weak links along the value chain that require attention in order to improve trade competitiveness. The results indicate that Malawi has some competitive advantage in the production and exportation of tobacco and cotton, and that this mostly derives from its low labor cost advantage. However, the results indicate that based on 2007/08 prices and costs, Malawi does not have competitive edge in maize and rice production for export. As such, Malawi would better pursue an import substitution strategy in these cereals, and perhaps only aim at the export market when regional market opportunities arise. Key factors that underpin Malawi's narrow competitiveness include the high cost of inorganic fertilizer and other inputs, low productivity, and the higher trader margins and intermediation costs along the value chains. Furthermore, farm gate prices in Malawi are higher than in other countries, and this undercuts its trade competitiveness.
    Note: English
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  • 9
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    Proceedings of the 18th meeting of the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (2014)
    New York, NY : ACM
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    UID:
    gbv_1657535088
    Format: 1 online resource (166 pages)
    ISBN: 9781450327176
    Series Statement: ACM Conferences
    Language: English
    Keywords: Konferenzschrift
    DOI: 10.1145/2556700
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    URL: lizenzpflichtig
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    UB Potsdam
  • 10
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    Innovations in Food Trade : Rethinking Aflatoxin Management in East Africa (2020)
    Washington, D.C. :The World Bank,
    Details
    UID:
    edoccha_9960786969902883
    Series Statement: Other papers.
    Content: The high prevalence of aflatoxins in maize and other staple foods in the EAC has become an important obstacle to domestic and regional food trade. While EAC Member States have made good progress in promulgating regionally harmonized standards that include mandatory upper limits on aflatoxins, the high cost and complexity of meeting these standards has led to a large share of food being traded outside the regulatory framework thereby distancing poor producers from the market and undermining the prospects for regional value chain development. Especially as EAC countries look to recover from COVID-19 (coronavirus) and build resilient food systems for the future, minimizing the cost of market transactions is more important than ever. The need for aflatoxin management begins at the farm level where fundamental challenges with smallholder agriculture make crops highly susceptible to contamination.1 Bimodal rainfall across much of the EAC make sun drying and storage difficult and poor post-harvest practices such as hand shelling of grain and drying of crops directly on the ground compound the problem. Simple improvements in these areas are possible but add to cost so can be difficult for poor farmers and traders to justify without adequate incentives. As awareness of aflatoxins grows in the EAC, many farmers are adopting improved practices on crops saved for family consumption but not for market sale. Current regulatory approaches to managing aflatoxins in the EAC rely on expensive testing and border controls that are easily circumvented. In Uganda, SPS procedures now require exporters to submit a certificate of aflatoxin analysis from one of three nationally recognized laboratories for every consignment. Throughout the EAC, tests happen far away from the main production areas and only large firms have the wherewithal to comply. Similarly, at the consumer end of domestic and regional value chains, only large industrial mills perform regular tests and are subject to routine inspection. Meanwhile, small traders and SMEs can navigate around the regulatory system since borders are porous and small mills are rarely inspected. This situation not only leaves the EAC with little to no effective control over aflatoxins but precludes the payment of premiums to small farmers and offtakers that are needed to reward improvements at upstream stages of the value chain where aflatoxin problems begin.
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/34846
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