@article{Katengeza:96170,
      recid = {96170},
      author = {Katengeza, Samson P. and Mangisoni, Julius H. and Okello,  Julius Juma},
      title = {The Role of ICT-based Market Information Services in  Spatial Food Market Integration: The Case of Malawi  Agricultural Commodity Exchange},
      address = {2010-09},
      number = {308-2016-5058},
      pages = {18},
      year = {2010},
      abstract = {The government of Malawi in 2004 initiated an ICT-based  Malawi Agricultural Commodity
Exchange (MACE), a market  information service project, to improve access by farmers  to
market information. MACE was intended to improve the  efficiency of agricultural markets as
part of the strategy  to improve food security. This study uses quantitative  methods to examine
whether MACE has contributed to  efficiency of rice markets in Malawi. It especially tests  if
MACE has contributed to spatial integration of rice  markets. As hypothesized, the study finds
that the tendency  of rice prices to move together in spatially separated  markets has significantly
increased since the  implementation of MACE. It concludes that ICT-based market  information
services improve the efficiency with which  agricultural markets perform. The study  discusses
implications of this finding for policy.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/96170},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.96170},
}