Appendix D

Worksheet to identify domestic marketing patterns

Purpose

:  This worksheet will guide the analyst through a sequential series of steps to

identify both the movement and structure of major cereal markets in a particular country.

The concept is to offer a practical guide to identify the contextual information necessary

to use market and price data and information for early warning.

Steps:

1.

Collect and review past studies on the marketing of agricultural products in your

country. Universities (both local and international), government, donors, or NGOs has

often done these studies.

2.

This step is to identify the movement of cereals within the country.

a)

Based on the previous two appendices, list the three most important staple foods.

If there are more than three important staple foods then continue the list on

another copy of Appendix D.

b)

For each staple list the name of the market, the location of the market (e.g.,

province), and the type of market (rural assembly, transit, or terminal market). If

there are more markets for any staple food then continue the list on another copy

of Appendix D.

Staple food

       Major

 Major      

       Major

     assembly              wholesale           consumption

      markets               markets                 centers

1. ___________

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2. ___________

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3. ___________

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