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Kalyani Raghunathan

Kalyani Raghunathan is Research Fellow in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit, based in New Delhi, India. Her research lies at the intersection of agriculture, gender, social protection, and public health and nutrition, with a specific focus on South Asia and Africa. 

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Development Strategies and Governance

Josue Niyonsingiza

Senior Research Analyst

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Josue Niyonsingiza is a Senior Research Analyst in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit, based in Kigali, Rwanda. Josue contributes to the research work of the Rwanda Strategy Support Program and of the Strengthening Food Systems to Promote Increased Value Chain Employment Opportunities for Youth project. His areas of interest include agricultural development and policy, youth labor markets, rural development, climate change and related shocks, food security, and the environment, including natural resources and sustainable land use. Prior to joining IFPRI, he worked as a consultant for The World Bank Group. He holds a master’s degree in Global Human Development from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.

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Rwandan maize market price dynamics: Structure, trends and policy implications

2024Warner, James; Benimana, Gilberthe Uwera; Mugabo, Serge; Niyonsingiza, Josue; Mukangabo, Emerence; Ingabire, Chantal
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Rwandan maize market price dynamics: Structure, trends and policy implications

The importance of maize for Rwanda cannot be overstated. Most smallholder farmers, along the spectrum of both land size and level of commercialization, engage in both production, own consumption, and sale of maize. Unlike most other crops, maize is commonly produced by all levels of commercialized and subsistence smallholder farmers. For example, recent research revealed that even though almost half of all maize produced is sold (44%), only an average of 23 percent is marketed at the household level (Warner et al. 2024). This indicates that while maize is widely sold by most smallholders, it is disproportionally sold by those with relatively larger farms. Therefore, maize is important for both own consumption as well as commercial sales and price movements are critical for understanding potential welfare impacts on both buyers and sellers. Research presented here outlines some important maize price relationships, including multi-year trends, interrelationships between Rwandan markets and seasonality. Overall, we find strong correlation between all markets suggesting a good degree of integration but persistent individual market prices above and below national averages as well as seasonality that generally conforms to maize’s main harvest period (Season A). This policy brief provides an overview of maize prices in Rwanda in order to enhance evidence-based policymaking for targeting recommendations aimed at more integrated and stable maize market prices throughout the country. For example, seasonal price changes suggest an annual average price fluctuation of approximately 30 percent and if targeted policies could reduce this seasonal price variation, smallholder welfare would likely be improved.

Year published

2024

Authors

Warner, James; Benimana, Gilberthe Uwera; Mugabo, Serge; Niyonsingiza, Josue; Mukangabo, Emerence; Ingabire, Chantal

Citation

Warner, James; Benimana, Gilberthe Uwera; Mugabo, Serge; Niyonsingiza, Josue; Mukangabo, Emerence; and Ingabire, Chantal. 2024. Rwandan maize market price dynamics: Structure, trends and policy implications. IFPRI Rwanda SSP Policy Note 15. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152398

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Rwanda

Keywords

Africa; Eastern Africa; Consumption; Maize; Smallholders; Welfare

Language

English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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National Policies and Strategies

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Quantifying food losses in the beans value chain in Rwanda: Analysis and results from a baseline survey

2024Delgado, Luciana; Niyonsingiza, Josue; Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane
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Quantifying food losses in the beans value chain in Rwanda: Analysis and results from a baseline survey

At the global level, awareness about the significance of food loss and waste has grown significantly over the past decade. The international community has taken the matter to hand as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and has committed to “halve the per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer level and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses” by 2030.

Year published

2024

Authors

Delgado, Luciana; Niyonsingiza, Josue; Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane

Citation

Delgado, Luciana; Niyonsingiza, Josue; and Bachewe, Fantu. 2024. Quantifying food losses in the beans value chain in Rwanda: Analysis and results from a baseline survey. SFS4YOUTH Working Paper 2. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152031

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Rwanda

Keywords

Africa; Eastern Africa; Beans; Capacity Development; Surveys; Value Chains

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open Access

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Project

Gender Equality

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Working Paper

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Synopsis: Rwanda smallholder agricultural commercialization survey: Overview using selective categorical variables

2024Warner, James; Rosenbach, Gracie; Benimana, Gilberthe; Mugabo, Serge; Niyonsingiza, Josue; Mukangabo, Emerence; Dushimayezu, Bertrand; Nshimiyimana, Octave; Ingabire, Chantal; Spielman, David J.
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Synopsis: Rwanda smallholder agricultural commercialization survey: Overview using selective categorical variables

Increased commercialization of smallholder farmers is a major emphasis of Rwanda’s PSTA4 and will continue with PSTA5, as well as other policy documents related to agriculture. Although PSTA4 sought to increase the profitability of smallholder production, efforts to address accelerating commercialization were limited due to the absence of data and analysis on returns to commercial production systems. Relatively little was known about smallholder agricultural decision-making and the associated costs and returns to production systems among these farmers. This policy note introduces an important research initiative that will explore various aspects of commercialization by Rwandan smallholder farmers and is meant as a general introduction to smallholder commercialization. In subsequent research papers, more detailed studies based on these initial findings will contribute to an improved understanding of agricultural smallholders by providing (1) more nuanced analysis of commercial farmer typologies, (2) estimates of returns to commercial production systems across multiple farmers typologies, and (3) recommendations designed to improve interventions in smallholder commercialization. This brief provides a summary of the results obtained from the 2022 Smallholder Farmer Commercialization Survey (IFPRI 2024). Designed to be representative at the national and provincial levels, ten households were surveyed in 202 villages resulting in a total of 2,020 interviewed households. The survey covered a wide range of topics including: 1) household demographics; 2) migration, household assets and house conditions, and shocks; 3) household farm characteristics; 4) household expenditures (consumption and non-consumption), and 5) household income sources. The survey instrument was developed using other IFPRI surveys and was referenced to the 2020 AHS and the 2016-2017 EICV5 surveys from NISR.

Year published

2024

Authors

Warner, James; Rosenbach, Gracie; Benimana, Gilberthe; Mugabo, Serge; Niyonsingiza, Josue; Mukangabo, Emerence; Dushimayezu, Bertrand; Nshimiyimana, Octave; Ingabire, Chantal; Spielman, David J.

Citation

Warner, James; Rosenbach, Gracie; Benimana, Gilberthe; Mugabo, Serge; Niyonsingiza, Josue; Mukangabo, Emerence; et al. 2024. Synopsis: Rwanda smallholder agricultural commercialization survey: Overview using selective categorical variables. Rwanda SSP Policy Note 9. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141467

Country/Region

Rwanda

Keywords

Africa; Eastern Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Commercialization; Smallholders; Agriculture; Decision Making; Surveys; Households; Migration

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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Source record

Record type

Brief