Africa has longed for commodity exchanges since early 1990s. Among such countries in this continent where agricultural commodity exchanges were established in the 1990s are Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe - characterized by seasonal price variability. The Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX, 2008) has been a successful private-public exchange for which other African countries and the whole continent would like to model commodity exchanges for the highly volatile Agricultural sector. Financial and mathematical models are introduced to prevent losses by...
Africa has longed for commodity exchanges since early 1990s. Among such countries in this continent where agricultural commodity exchanges were establ...