Excerpts: The food marketing and distribution system has to be able to perform four functions to assure access to sufficient food stocks for the entire Nigerien population. It must assure food supplies in areas of sedentary cultivation which, are overall, self-sufficient in food but in which inequities in production require reliance on the distributional system. It must assure food supplies in urban areas and in the pastoral zones in which grain staples in particular are hardly produced at all. It must collect and store national food security stocks in case of climatic stocks such as those experienced in the early 1970's. Finally, it must maintain linkages with international food commodity trading networks to dispose of surpluses advantageously or to fill deficits reasonably. The objective of this study is to convey an overview of the food marketing system or, more properly, systems in the Republic of Niger. The point of departure of the study is the food producer. The fundamental question is what are his marketing options and, faced with these options, on what does the producer base his-choice among them?