Zimbabwe Food Security Success Story Maize Market Reforms Improve Access to Food Even While Government Eliminates Food Subsidies
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SYNOPSIS: Basic changes in market regulation have provided an opportunity for low-income consumers in Zimbabwe to improve their diets and real incomes, even while macro-economic adjustments to remove unsustainable food subsidies were being implemented. This synthesis also shows how information on consumer preferences among income groups can be used to make markets work better for BACKGROUND: In an attempt to escape the the poor, through active promotion of (self-targeted) food-price dilemma, many governments have sought commodities. to reduce consumer food prices by providing direct
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