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Marketing of Staple Food Crops in Tropical Africa: Overall Analysis and Report.

PB211669

Publication Date	1969
Personal Author	Jones, W. O.
Page Count	280
Abstract	The report is an end product of a study undertaken to identify practical methods for increasing the efficiency with which staple foodstuffs are marketed in tropical Africa. It describes the structure of selected food marketing systems in tropical Africa in terms of product flow, exchange levels, personnel, and marketing; it appraises the performance of the system; and it identified measures that might be adopted to improve its efficiency. The specific subjects of the report are the trade in staple foodstuffs in the supply hinterlands of four major cities: Nairobi, Kenya; Enugu, Nigeria; Ibadan, Nigeria; and Freetown, Sierra Leone. (Author)
Keywords	Food Developing countries Marketing Supply(Economics) Urban areas Commerce Diets Efficiency Subsaharan Africa Kenya Nigeria Sierre Leone
Source Agency	Invalid Source Agency Code
NTIS Subject Category	96A - Domestic Commerce, Marketing, & Economics
Corporate Authors	Stanford Research Inst., Menlo Park, Calif.
Document Type	Technical Report
Title Note	Final rept.
NTIS Issue Number	197221
Contract Number	AID/CSD-801

Marketing of Staple Food Crops in Tropical Africa: Overall Analysis and Report.

Marketing of Staple Food Crops in Tropical Africa: Overall Analysis and Report.
PB211669

Publication Date	1969
Personal Author	Jones, W. O.
Page Count	280
Abstract	The report is an end product of a study undertaken to identify practical methods for increasing the efficiency with which staple foodstuffs are marketed in tropical Africa. It describes the structure of selected food marketing systems in tropical Africa in terms of product flow, exchange levels, personnel, and marketing; it appraises the performance of the system; and it identified measures that might be adopted to improve its efficiency. The specific subjects of the report are the trade in staple foodstuffs in the supply hinterlands of four major cities: Nairobi, Kenya; Enugu, Nigeria; Ibadan, Nigeria; and Freetown, Sierra Leone. (Author)
Keywords	Food Developing countries Marketing Supply(Economics) Urban areas Commerce Diets Efficiency Subsaharan Africa Kenya Nigeria Sierre Leone
Source Agency	Invalid Source Agency Code
NTIS Subject Category	96A - Domestic Commerce, Marketing, & Economics
Corporate Authors	Stanford Research Inst., Menlo Park, Calif.
Document Type	Technical Report
Title Note	Final rept.
NTIS Issue Number	197221
Contract Number	AID/CSD-801