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Price volatility in Afghanistan's wheat market
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Year: 2010 Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service,

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Wheat is a key staple food in Afghanistan, accounting for over half the caloric intake of the population. Although Afghanistan imports wheat and flour from a number of neighboring countries, Pakistan tends to supply more than half of these imports. Afghanistan's food supply network broke down in 2008 due to a confluence of events, including shortfalls in Pakistani and Afghan wheat production and Pakistan's bans on wheat and flour exports. Substantial price hikes were needed to bring increased flour shipments from Kazakhstan through the inefficient transport system from the North. Afghanistan will remain subject to supply disruptions and price spikes as long as its agricultural production remains highly variable and weak transportation links limit the country's ability to diversify its sources of imported grain. Improvements in infrastructure could enable Afghanistan to diversify its wheat and flour imports and bring in supplies at a lower cost.


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Price volatility in Afghanistan's wheat market
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Year: 2010 Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service,

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Wheat is a key staple food in Afghanistan, accounting for over half the caloric intake of the population. Although Afghanistan imports wheat and flour from a number of neighboring countries, Pakistan tends to supply more than half of these imports. Afghanistan's food supply network broke down in 2008 due to a confluence of events, including shortfalls in Pakistani and Afghan wheat production and Pakistan's bans on wheat and flour exports. Substantial price hikes were needed to bring increased flour shipments from Kazakhstan through the inefficient transport system from the North. Afghanistan will remain subject to supply disruptions and price spikes as long as its agricultural production remains highly variable and weak transportation links limit the country's ability to diversify its sources of imported grain. Improvements in infrastructure could enable Afghanistan to diversify its wheat and flour imports and bring in supplies at a lower cost.


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Liberalizing foodgrains markets : experiences, impact, and lessons from South Asia
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ISBN: 0198066953 9780198066958 Year: 2010 Publisher: New Delhi : Oxford University Press,

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Contributed articles presented at an international conference hosted by IFPRI in New Delhi.


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Lowcountry time and tide : the fall of the South Carolina rice kingdom
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ISBN: 1283855348 1611172160 1570039267 9781611172164 9781570039263 9781283855341 Year: 2010 Publisher: Columbia, SC : University of South Carolina Press,

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A thorough account of rice culture's final decades and of its modern legacy.

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