Trading in turbulent times: Smallholder maize marketing in the Southern Highlands, Tanzania

摘要: The short-run effects of the 2007/2008 global food crisis on semisubsistence farmers’ well-being in low-income countries depends whether they are net sellers or buyers affected commodities. Realizing that farmers face volatile prices over course an agricultural year, we analyze timing sales and purchases maize. In addition, our analysis, depart from oft-made assumption rural villages perfectly integrated within wider economy. Comparing results with a static find especially-poor greater losses maize price than others. welfare impact is likely to be even more severe previously thought, as hurts large households relatively numbers children women most. We also factors affect potential benefits intertemporal spatial dispersion, such means transport, access information, credit.