Improving Agricultural Market Performance:
Developing Agricultural Market Information Systems
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Figure 9: AMIS Market Report on Grains and Oilseeds Index by Year (2017/2018)
Source (February 2018)
3.4.2 INTERNATIONAL QUASI-PUBLIC 2GMIS MODEL: RESIMAO A number of regional MIS networks which are funded by multilateral donors have emerged
across various regions in especially Asia and Africa. Among these is the Réseau des Systèmes
d’Information des Marchés en Afrique de l’Ouest (RESIMAO), otherwise known as the Network
of Market Information Systems in West Africa (WAMIS-NET). The network collects data,
provides information on rural and urban agricultural commodity markets and publishes
statistics and reports. All the member co tries of the Economic Community of West African
States (ECOWAS) are part of the networ . As depicted in Table 3, the food systems in these
countries are dominated by staple cerea uch as maize, rice, millet and sorghum and root
crops, especially cassava and yams. RESIMAO reports market information on these crops as well
as for fruits and veg bles. It also publishes price data for livestock and agricultural inputs,
mainly via its websit .
The third column of le 3 also shows that per capita consumption of cereals in West Africa is
generally rising, at a pace which is higher than the rate for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), which is
estimated rate 4.9%between the 1960s and 2001-07. Most of the countries in the region depend
on imports, especially of rice andmaize, to meet domestic demand for human consumption. This
is due partly to growth in national populations outstripping growth in output of the staple
cereals as yields tend to be generally below achievable potential levels (Chauvin et al., 2012).
11 The countries covered include: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, Gambia. Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau,
Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.
12 Website: www.resimao.net