Predictive mapping of wholesale grain prices for rural areas in Tanzania : A replicable modeling framework for predicting agricultural prices across time and space
Our understanding of small farm decision-making in developing countries is often critically constrained by sparse information about the input and output prices faced by farmers operating diverse landscapes with heterogeneous market and accessibility characteristics. We present a methodology for pred...
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| author | Madaga, Lavinia Chamberlin, Jordan Bisrat Gebrekidan Silva, João Vasco Mkondiwa, Maxwell Hijmans, Robert J. |
| author_browse | Bisrat Gebrekidan Chamberlin, Jordan Hijmans, Robert J. Madaga, Lavinia Mkondiwa, Maxwell Silva, João Vasco |
| author_facet | Madaga, Lavinia Chamberlin, Jordan Bisrat Gebrekidan Silva, João Vasco Mkondiwa, Maxwell Hijmans, Robert J. |
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| description | Our understanding of small farm decision-making in developing countries is often critically constrained by sparse information about the input and output prices faced by farmers operating diverse landscapes with heterogeneous market and accessibility characteristics. We present a methodology for predicting local market prices over time and space, using relatively sparse pooled observations on crop commodity market prices at different locations and times. We show prediction results for wholesale prices for grains (six different cereals and beans) and potatoes in Tanzania. We find that pooling observations on prices for different commodities improves prediction for any given commodity, because of spatiotemporal covariance in observed prices. We discuss how our modeling framework could be used to design relatively low-cost monitoring systems for enabling regularly updated, national-scale spatial price maps. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1627292025-05-04T09:22:00Z Predictive mapping of wholesale grain prices for rural areas in Tanzania : A replicable modeling framework for predicting agricultural prices across time and space Madaga, Lavinia Chamberlin, Jordan Bisrat Gebrekidan Silva, João Vasco Mkondiwa, Maxwell Hijmans, Robert J. wholesale prices grain rural areas agricultural prices markets forecasting Our understanding of small farm decision-making in developing countries is often critically constrained by sparse information about the input and output prices faced by farmers operating diverse landscapes with heterogeneous market and accessibility characteristics. We present a methodology for predicting local market prices over time and space, using relatively sparse pooled observations on crop commodity market prices at different locations and times. We show prediction results for wholesale prices for grains (six different cereals and beans) and potatoes in Tanzania. We find that pooling observations on prices for different commodities improves prediction for any given commodity, because of spatiotemporal covariance in observed prices. We discuss how our modeling framework could be used to design relatively low-cost monitoring systems for enabling regularly updated, national-scale spatial price maps. 2024-11 2024-11-25T16:23:27Z 2024-11-25T16:23:27Z Report https://hdl.handle.net/10568/162729 en Open Access application/pdf EiA Madaga, L., Chamberlin, J., Bisrat Gebrekidan., Silva, J. V., Mkondiwa, M. & Hijmans, R. J. (2024). Predictive mapping of wholesale grain prices for rural areas in Tanzania: A replicable modeling framework for predicting agricultural prices across time and space. EIA. https://hdl.handle.net/10883/35063 |
| spellingShingle | wholesale prices grain rural areas agricultural prices markets forecasting Madaga, Lavinia Chamberlin, Jordan Bisrat Gebrekidan Silva, João Vasco Mkondiwa, Maxwell Hijmans, Robert J. Predictive mapping of wholesale grain prices for rural areas in Tanzania : A replicable modeling framework for predicting agricultural prices across time and space |
| title | Predictive mapping of wholesale grain prices for rural areas in Tanzania : A replicable modeling framework for predicting agricultural prices across time and space |
| title_full | Predictive mapping of wholesale grain prices for rural areas in Tanzania : A replicable modeling framework for predicting agricultural prices across time and space |
| title_fullStr | Predictive mapping of wholesale grain prices for rural areas in Tanzania : A replicable modeling framework for predicting agricultural prices across time and space |
| title_full_unstemmed | Predictive mapping of wholesale grain prices for rural areas in Tanzania : A replicable modeling framework for predicting agricultural prices across time and space |
| title_short | Predictive mapping of wholesale grain prices for rural areas in Tanzania : A replicable modeling framework for predicting agricultural prices across time and space |
| title_sort | predictive mapping of wholesale grain prices for rural areas in tanzania a replicable modeling framework for predicting agricultural prices across time and space |
| topic | wholesale prices grain rural areas agricultural prices markets forecasting |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/162729 |
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