Rising trends and variability of rice prices: Threats and opportunities for sub-Saharan Africa

Food Policy

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 403-411

  Seck, Papa A ^a   Tollens, Eric ^b   Wopereis, Marco C S ^a   Diagne, Aliou ^a   Bamba, Ibrahim ^a  

^a AFRICA RICE CENTER AFRICARICE   (Benin)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Competitiveness; Rice technologies; Sub Saharan Africa; World rice markets

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; COMPETITIVENESS; CROP PRODUCTION; FOOD MARKET; FOOD SECURITY; FOOD SUPPLY; PADDY FARMING; PRICE DYNAMICS; RICE;

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 77956189275     PISSN: 03069192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2010.05.003     Document Type: Article

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