Market Information and Food Insecurity Response Analysis (MIFIRA)

MIFIRA Applications, Research Findings and Articles

  1. Barrett, Christopher B., Robert Bell, Erin C. Lentz, and Daniel G. Maxwell (2009) "Market Information and Food Insecurity Response Analysis," Food Security 1(2) pp. 151-168. DOI: 10.1007/s12571-009-0021-3
  2. Barrett, Christopher B., Erin C. Lentz, and Daniel G. Maxwell (2007) "A Market Analysis and Decision Tree Tool for Response Analysis: Cash, Local Purchase, and/or Imported Food Aid? The Decision Tree Tool," May. CARE.
  3. Hill, Elaine, Joanna Upton, and Arnold Xavier (2011). "Local and Regional Procurement in Uganda: Lessons learned from a pilot study of the Market Information and Food Insecurity Response Analysis (MIFIRA) framework," July. Draft.
  4. FEWS NET "Special Brief: Market functioning in southern Somalia," July 28 2011.
  5. Maxwell, Daniel G., Erin C. Lentz, and Christopher B. Barrett, (2007) "A Market Analysis and Decision Tree Tool for Response Analysis: Cash, Local Purchase, and/or Imported Food Aid? Background Paper," May. CARE.
  6. Michelson, Hope, Erin C. Lentz, Richard Mulwa, Mitchell Morey, Laura Cramer, Megan McGlinchy and Christopher B. Barrett (forthcoming), "Cash, Food or Vouchers in Urban and Rural Kenya? An Application of the Market Information and Food Insecurity Response Analysis Framework," Food Security.
  7. Mude, Andrew. G., Robert Ouma, and Erin C. Lentz (forthcoming), "Responding to Food Insecurity: Employing the Marking Information and Food Insecurity Response Analysis framework in rural Northern Kenya," Journal of Development Studies.
  8. Upton, Joanna and Elaine Hill (2011) "Local and Regional Procurement of Food Aid in Uganda: the experience of maize traders," Working paper. March.
  9. "Example of how to detrend and deseasonalize price series using maize prices from Kenya," Excel spreadsheet.