This paper evaluates spatial market integration in cereal markets in Sudan, focusing on wheat and sorghum, two major cereal crops. Sudan’s context provides important insights on the functioning of markets in economies marred by sanctions, conflicts, soaring inflation, and macroeconomic imbalances. We use long-ranging monthly cereal price data and a vector of error-correction cointegration model (VECM) to characterize both short-term and long-term spatial price adjustment across cereal markets
NEW PUBLICATION: Wheat Subsidies, Wheat Markets and Food Security in Sudan: Current State and Options for The Future
This policy note summarizes the key findings from the following four research papers prepared by the International Food Policy Research Institute with financial support by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
NEW PUBLICATION: Evaluating Cereal Market (Dis)Integration in Sudan
This paper evaluates spatial market and price transmission in cereal markets in Sudan, focusing on wheat and sorghum, two major cereal crops. We use comprehensive and long-ranging monthly cereal price data and a multivariate vector of error-correction cointegration models (VECM) to characterize both short-term and long-term price transmissions across local cereal markets
Trust and Information Sharing Are Pillars Of Food Security
August 14, 2017 By: Pascal Bergeret, Director, Institut Agronomique Mediterraneen de Montpellier, CIEHAM, France Share URL Among the lessons learnt about the causes of the global food crisis of 2007/2008, the impact of ill-informed trade policy decisions and panic stricken commercial behaviour comes high on the list. Combined with prolonged drought, soaring oil prices and the […]
