Activities Chapter 4


 Activity 4:

 Analysis of effects of food pricing and marketing policies


1) Identification of major price distortions (in the past/today) in a specific country and
 calculation of the "nominal rates of protection" for (a selection of) typical exported and
 imported agricultural and non-agricultural products.

2) Analysis of priorities/objectives of agricultural sector/food marketing and pricing policies
 applied in a specific country (giving also due attention to potential/major conflicts among the
 sector objectives and with objectives of other elements of macro-economic and structural
 adjustment policies).

3) Trace the effects of agricultural pricing and marketing policies, as applied
 prior to adjustment,
 at present/during the transition period of adjustment,
 according to the proposed concept of agricultural sector price-market liberalisation and
 institutional reform,
 of a fully liberalised agricultural pricing and marketing system,
 on market prices, food production, supply, demand (using Template A4-1 for graphical
 analysis), and on food security (in national aggregate terms and of specific vulnerable groups).

4) Draw conclusions on the critical implications of market and pricing policies pursued in
 ongoing adjustment programmes for food security, and indicate where modifications would be
 required in order to take proper account of food security aspects.


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