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Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9251027900
Author : John Charles De Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039688457
Research report on agricultural sector and state intervention in agricultural marketing and agricultural price in Africa south of Sahara - discusses shortcomings of the agricultural project approach; includes case studies of Ghana, the Cote d'Ivoire, Kenya, Senegal, Sudan, Tanzania and Zambia; examines availability of land and labour force, climatic influence, price structure, incentives, farmers' attitudes towards price changes, etc.; lists recommendations. Graphs, references and statistical tables.
Author : Ojetunji Aboyade
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0896293041
Introduction; The incentives system; Some african cases; Toward policy restructuring.
Author : Robert H. Bates,Robert Hinrichs Bates
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520042530
Most Africans live in rural areas and derive their incomes from farming; but because African governments follow policies that are adverse to most farmers' interests, these countries fail to produce enough food to feed their populations. "Markets and States in Tropical Africa "analyzes these and other paradoxical features of development in modern Africa and explores how governments have intervened and diverted resources from farmers to other sectors of society. A classic of the field since its publication in 1981, this edition includes a new preface by the author.
Author : Dieter Elz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002403728
Author : Kherallah, Mylene,Delgado, Christopher L.,Gabre-Madhin, Eleni Z.,Minot, Nicholas,Johnson, Michael
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801871986
The long-term reduction of hunger and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa remains one of the great challenges for the international development community. Eliminating hunger and promoting widespread growth in the region inevitably involves agriculture, given its central role in the regions economies. Over the past 20 years, most African governments have carried out reforms to deregulate agricultural markets and reduce the role of state enterprises. How much has the state actually withdrawn from agricultural markets? Have well-functioning private markets emerged? How successful were these reforms in boosting agricultural production, economic growth, and the incomes of the rural poor? What lessons can we learn from the reform process? The authors of this book address these questions through an analysis based on an extensive review of experiences with reform, focusing on three major agricultural markets: fertilizer, food crops, and export crops. They examine the historical rationales for intervention, the factors contributing to reform, the process of implementation, and the impact of the reforms on farmers and consumers in Sub-Saharan Africa. The authors find that reforms have had many favorable results, but that the impact has been muted by partial implementation and structural constraints. They propose a new agenda for promoting the development of agricultural markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, identifying areas where governments can play a supportive role. They argue that appropriate agricultural marketing policies and investments can improve livelihoods and the economic health of the region.
Author : Charles Harvey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCAL:B4373293
Author : Jane Harrigan,Rupert J. Loader,Colin G. Thirtle
Publisher : Mitchell Beazley
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015056463501
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789251304655
FAO Agricultural development economics technical study This report shows diverging results across countries and commodities, although aggregate figures indicate that price incentives to agriculture were increasing across the period overall. Import tariffs and price support are thought to be the main drivers of this trend.
Author : Anne O. Krueger,Maurice W. Schiff,Alberto Valdés
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Agricultural prices
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004690702
Author : Robert H. Bates
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520282568
Following independence, most countries in Africa sought to develop, but their governments pursued policies that actually undermined their rural economies. Examining the origins of Africa’s “growth tragedy,” Markets and States in Tropical Africa has for decades shaped the thinking of practitioners and scholars alike. Robert H. Bates’s analysis now faces a challenge, however: the revival of economic growth on the continent. In this edition, Bates provides a new preface and chapter that address the seeds of Africa’s recovery and discuss the significance of the continent’s success for the arguments of this classic work.
Author : Inderjit Singh,Lyn Squire,James Kirchner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038013541
Author : J. Dirck Stryker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034769955
This report shows that Ghana's economic decline of agricultural prices cannot be attributed solely to government price intervention. But intervention in the workings of the cocoa sector contributed heavly to the country's inability to achieve prosperity and stability after 1957. During the decades since independence in 1957, direct intervention in Ghana's all-important cocoa sector has been in the hands of a Cocoa Marketing Board (CMB), which sets annual producer prices, purchases the crop from domestic producers and markets it to foreign buyers. Although the chief reason for creating the CMB was to assure Ghana's cocoa farmers a stable and decent income, the agency's direct intervention helped to keep producer prices lower than they might have been otherwise. The government's direct and indirect intervention in the cocoa market, according to the study, far outweighed its incentives to cocoa producers. Moreover, most of the benefits of these incentives went to large producers rather than the far more numerous smallholders. Another important finding of this study is that government regulation of the cocoa sector had the serious negative long-term effect of deferring the replacement of old coffee trees with new ones.
Author : David Gale Johnson,G. Edward Schuh
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039457218
The world food situation: rcent and prospective developments; World hnger: extent, causes and cures; Prices policies in developing countries; Government and agricultural markets in Africa; The role of trade in food security and agricultural development; The role of markets and government in the world food economy.
Author : Hasan Tuluy,B. Lynn Salinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012206673
Morocco, a North African country with a population of about 23 million, has had a dualistic agriculture sector during most of the 20th century. One subsector is comprised of many small subsistence farms that grow chiefly wheat and barley; the other subsector is made up of large irrigated holdings that produce fruits and vegetables for export. Like many of the other developing countries examined in this comparative studies project, Morocco concentrated on building its industrial capabilities in the years following independence in 1956. That meant that consumers generally benefitted from government intervention in agricultural prices and that farm producers in general suffered the penalty of lower prices for their products. The subsistence subsector, however, was penalized more heavily by intervention than the export subsector. By 1973, at the time of the first oil shock, Morocco's coastal cities and new industries were continuing to grow, and there was an ongoing shift of population from rural areas to the cities. A steep rate of inflation, accompanied by political turmoil, then made it more necessary than ever for the government to intervene to keep consumer prices as low as possible. Morocco was able to subsidize consumer prices relatively painlessly at that time because of rising revenues from its exports of phosphates. (The country has about three-fourths of the world's phosphate reserves.) The year 1973 also marked the appearance of a more positive attitude toward agricultural producers. While the farm sector's output prices continued to be penalized by an overvalued exchange rate, some effort was made to counterbalance the exchange rate's ill effects through direct intervention. High world prices for most commodities, including farm products, had made food self-sufficiency a more appealing goal. In the early 1980s, as the world suffered recession, Morocco's export revenues declined. Subsidization of consumer food prices then became more difficult for the government. Although an initial attempt in 1981 to limit consumer subsidies by raising food prices resulted in serious riots, the country's food prices were gradually brought into line with market realities. Morocco's farms saw their prices improve further during the first half of the 1980s, and by 1984 the overall farm price penalty caused by the overvalued exchange rate had fallen to 8 percent, the lowest figure for the entire 1960-84 period. This study also reports on the effects of government intervention in agricultural prices on such important variables as farm production, food consumption, and exchange rate earnings.
