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Food supply --- 338.43 <68> --- 338.439.6 --- Food control --- Produce trade --- Agriculture --- Food security --- Single cell proteins --- Government policy&delete& --- Congresses --- Landbouweconomie--Staten en gebieden van Zuidafrika --- Veiligstellen van de voeding. Verzorging van voedingsmiddelen --- SADCC Food Security Programme --- Southern African Development Coordination Conference --- Conferencia para a Coordenaçao do Desenvolvimento na Africa Austral --- S.A.D.C.C. --- SADCC --- Southern Africa Development Co-ordination Conference --- Southern Africa Development Coordination Conference --- Southern African Development Co-ordination Conference --- Southern African Development Coordination Committee --- Conférence pour la coordination du développement en Afrique australe --- Southern African Development Community --- Southern African Development Coordination Conference. --- SADCC Regional Food Security Program --- Food Security Programme (Southern African Development Community) --- Congresses. --- Developing countries: agricultural and food problems --- South Africa --- Government policy

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"Strategic interaction between public and private actors is increasingly recognized as an important determinant of agricultural market performance in Africa and elsewhere. Trust and consultation tend to positively affect private activity while uncertainty of government behavior impedes it. This paper reports on a laboratory experiment based on a stylized model of the Zambian maize market. The experiment facilitates a comparison between discretionary interventionism and a rules-based policy in which the government pre-commits itself to a future course of action. A simple precommitment rule can, in theory, overcome the prevailing strategic dilemma by encouraging private sector participation. Although this result is also borne out in the economic experiment, the improvement in private sector activity is surprisingly small and not statistically significant due to irrationally cautious choices by experimental governments. Encouragingly, a rules-based policy promotes a much more stable market outcome, thereby substantially reducing the risk of severe food shortages. These results underscore the importance of predictable and transparent rules for the state's involvement in agricultural markets. "--World Bank web site.

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