Achieving food security and industrial development in Malawi: Are export restrictions the solution?

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dc.creatorEmerta Aragie, Karl Pauw and Valentina Pernechele
dc.date2023-04-27T11:17:18Z
dc.date2023-04-27T11:17:18Z
dc.date2016
dc.date2017-03-13T18:52:45.0000000Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T20:55:45Z
dc.descriptionThis document evaluates whether export restrictions support food security and industrial development in Malawi, by examining the pertinent issue of export bans on maize, an existing and longstanding policy in Malawi, and oilseed export levies, a policy under consideration. We use a general equilibrium model calibrated to recent Malawi data to show that while these policies may under certain conditions achieve their respective objectives of increased domestic maize availability (‘food security’) and value-addition in the food processing sector in the short run, they are ineffective and self-defeating in the long run. This buttresses arguments for a more liberal stance towards trade policy in Malawi, which for years has been a leading cause of market uncertainty and consequently agricultural stagnation and the persistence of a subsistence-oriented approach to farming, despite significant government support to the agricultural sector in the form of input subsidies and agro-processing supp ort.
dc.format34 p.
dc.formatapplication/pdf
dc.identifierNo ISBN
dc.identifier2521-1838
dc.identifierhttps://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/I6645EN
dc.identifierhttp://www.fao.org/3/a-i6645e.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/208589
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherFAO ;
dc.relationFAO Agricultural Economics Working Paper
dc.relationESA Working Paper
dc.rightsFAO
dc.titleAchieving food security and industrial development in Malawi: Are export restrictions the solution?
dc.titleAchieving food security and industrial development in Malawi: Are export restrictions the solution?
dc.typeBook (series)

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