Impact of Imports and Food aids on Agriculture in the Democratic Republic Of Congo

Packs Kuyindama Mwika

Bachelor's thesis

Abstract:

The main goal of this bachelor thesis is to find out the impact of imported food commodities and food aid in the agricultural production of the Democratic Republic of Congo. And in the case their implication on agriculture productivity is significant, this thesis examine factors causing their persistant presence in the Country. Since agriculture is a vast economic sector and since different group of commodities may have different behaviour, this bachelor thesis especially focuses on cereals which are staple foods for most of the congolese population and which have a great share in food aid provided to the country. The statistical method used is the regression analysis which helped us to process data.After processing the data, the results of regression analysis showed that food aid does not have a significant relationship with the productivity of cereals in the Democrtic Repulic of Congo while the effect of imports of food commodities was find to be significant. However the study further revealed that the relationship between agricultural production and cereals imports was meanly driven by the high growth rate of the congolese population.

Keywords

Imports, Food aid, Agricultural production, Self-sufficiency, Rural population

Jazyk práce: English

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 14. 3. 2016

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Vedúci: Ing. Petr Procházka, MSc Ph.D.

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Economics and Management

Bachelor programme / odbor:
Economics and Management / Economics and Management