Market System Resilience Index (MSRI) in Mozambique

The Market System Resilience Index (MSRI) has been developed both to guide development practitioners in the process of conducting resilience assessments and to promote the inclusion of all relevant actors within a market system (Choptiany et al., 2021). The market actors defined in this approach are input suppliers, retailers, output markets, and households. These actors will interact with each other and feed the market system. The analysis is performed based on a scoring process between 0 and 5. The present study focuses on the provinces of Cabo Delgado and Nampula and involves farmers and enterprises within the same sector. 

The results show that the MSRI is 2.61 for households and 2.75 for market actors. These results establish  a baseline index, which is not enough to infer whether that is good or bad. It is just the stage of market system resilience in Nampula and Cabo Delgado for the farmers. For households, in terms of provinces, Cabo Delgado performed better than Nampula (2.68 against 2.47). In terms of gender, males had an MSRI of 2.68, while the MSRI for females was 2.51. These differences are statistically significant. For market actors, Nampula scored better than Cabo Delgado (2.93 against 2.60). These results can give us an overview of the MSRI for the farmers enrolled in iDE projects, particularly in Nampula and Cabo Delgado. Although not representative at the regional level (north of Mozambique), they serve as a starting point.