Agricultural Prices, Household Wellbeing and Poverty Alleviation

The Role of Agricultural Supply Chains and Household Constraints in ECOWAS countries

At the 19th annual conference of the African Region chapter of the Econometrics Society, held in Addis Ababa from July 16 to 19, 2014, the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) hosted a session on economic transformation in Africa.

ACET agronomist Francis Mulangu shared his work on the interplay between market forces and domestic complementary factors in the production and consumption decisions of agricultural families in Africa. Mulangu is a co-author—along with Guido Porto of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata and Nicolas Depetris Chauvin—of “Agricultural Prices, Household Wellbeing and Poverty Alleviation: The Role of Agricultural Supply Chains and Household Constraints in ECOWAS Countries.” The well-attended conference was hosted by the Ethiopian Economics Association. Keynote speakers included Justin Lin, Chris Udry, and Manuel Arellano. The ACET team was led by Mina Baliamoune.