Title II Food Aid and Agricultural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Towards a Principled Argument for When, and When Not, to Monetize

This paper is published by the Department of Agricultural Economics and the Department of Economics, Michigan State University (MSU). Funding for this research was provided by the Food Security II Cooperative Agreement (PCE-A-00-97-00044-00) between Michigan State University and the United States Agency for International Development, through the Office of Agriculture and Food Security in the Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade (EGAT). Supplemental funding for this research came from USAID/Office of Food for Peace. Tschirley is Professor, International Development, and Howard is Assistant Professor, International Development, in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. ii ISSN 0731-3438 All rights reserved by Michigan State University, 2003. Michigan State University agrees to and does hereby grant to the United States Government a royalty-free, non-exclusive and irrevocable license throughout the world to use, duplicate, disclose, or dispose of this publication in any manner and for any purposes and to permit others to do so. Published by the Department of Agricultural Economics and the Department of Economics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1039, U.S.A. iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The collaboration of USAID Missions in Uganda, Mozambique, and Rwanda is gratefully acknowledged. Thanks to David Neven for excellent research assistance in Rwanda and for coauthoring the Rwanda Case Stud