Download or read book Agricultural Marketing Intervention in East Africa written by Masao Yoshida and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical study of agricultural policy and state intervention in agricultural marketing in East Africa from 1900 to 1965 - blames colonialism for restricting peasant farmers' mobility (obstacles to obtaining credits, trade licensing system, etc.) and hindering agricultural development. Bibliography, statistical tables.
Download or read book Agricultural Marketing in Tropical Africa written by H. Laurens van der Laan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, this volume explores how African agriculture has always had a strong appeal for the people of the Netherlands. This is due to (1) a long-established interest in tropical agriculture going back to the days when Indonesia was a Duth colony; (2) a broad-based desire to help the Third World; and (3) the view that Tropical Africa is highly dependent on agriculture. As practical expertise in Africa and systematic research on African agriculture grew, specialization became both possible and necessary. This volume reflects the specialization in marketing which has been welcomed by economists, geographers and scholars of agricultural marketing. In addition to a general introductory chapter, this book includes five contributions on staple food grains, two on export crops, two on cattle and one on horticulture. Nine of the chapters are country-specific, covering Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cȏte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Zambia.
Download or read book Reforming agricultural markets in Africa written by Kherallah, Mylene and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 How much has the state actually withdrawn from agricultural markets?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.
Download or read book Agriculture Marketing and Pricing in Sub Saharan Africa written by John Charles De Wilde and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Promoting Private Sector Involvement in Agricultural Marketing in Africa written by Anne Margaret Thomson and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 1993 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Digital tools and agricultural market transformation in Africa Why are they not at scale yet and what will it take to get there written by Abay, Kibrom A. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper presents results from a framed field experiment in which participants make decisions about extraction of a common-pool resource, a community forest. The experiment was designed and piloted as both a research activity and an experiential learning intervention during 2017-2018 with 120 groups of resource users (split by gender) from 60 habitations in two Indian states, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan. We examine whether local beliefs and norms about community forest, gender of participants, within-experiment treatments (non-communication, communication, and optional election of institutional arrangements (rules)) and remuneration methods affect harvest behaviour and groups’ tendency to cooperate. Furthermore, we explore whether the experiment and subsequent community debriefing had learning effects. Results reveal a “weak” Nash Equilibrium in which participants harvested substantially less than the Nash prediction even in the absence of communication, a phenomenon stronger for male than female participants in both states. For male groups in both states, both communication and optional rule election are associated with lower group harvest per round, as compared to the reference non-communication game. For female groups in both states, however, communication itself did not significantly slow down resource depletion; but the introduction of optional rule election did reduce harvest amounts. For both men and women in Andhra Pradesh and men in Rajasthan, incentivized payments to individual participants significantly lowered group harvest, relative to community flat payment, suggesting a possible “crowding-in” effect on pro-social norms. Despite the generally positive memory of the activity, reported actual changes are limited. This may be due to the lack of follow-up with the communities between the experiment and the revisit. The fact that many of the communities already have a good understanding of the importance of the relationships between (not) cutting trees and the ecosystem services from forests, with rules and strong internal norms against cutting that go beyond the felling of trees in the game, may have also meant that the game did not have as much to add. Findings have methodological and practical implications for designing behavioral intervention programs to improve common-pool resource governance.
Download or read book Administering Food Producer Prices in Africa written by Ojetunji Aboyade and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 1985 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction; The incentives system; Some african cases; Toward policy restructuring.
Download or read book Incentives and Agriculture in East Africa written by Mats Lundahl and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discussion of what action can be taken in order to stimulate agricultural production in East Africa, which has recently been plunged into crisis. This book analyzes African socialism and contrasts this with more market-led approaches.
Download or read book Paths to the Emerging State in Asia and Africa written by Keijiro Otsuka and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This book addresses the issue of how a country, which was incorporated into the world economy as a periphery, could make a transition to the emerging state, capable of undertaking the task of economic development and industrialization. It offers historical and contemporary case studies of transition, as well as the international background under which such a transition was successfully made (or delayed), by combining the approaches of economic history and development economics. Its aim is to identify relevant historical contexts, that is, the ‘initial conditions’ and internal and external forces which governed the transition. It also aims to understand what current low-income developing countries require for their transition. Three economic driving forces for the transition are identified. They are: (1) labor-intensive industrialization, which offers ample employment opportunities for labor force; (2) international trade, which facilitates efficient international division of labor; and (3) agricultural development, which improves food security by increasing supply of staple foods. The book presents a bold account of each driver for the transition.
Download or read book Agricultural Market Intervention and Pricing Policies in Africa written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 1989 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agricultural Marketing Strategy and Pricing Policy written by Dieter Elz and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Harmonization of Agricultural Trade and Marketing Policies in Eastern and Southern Africa written by Millie Lucy Biruma Abaru and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marketing Boards in Tropical Africa written by Kwame Arhin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1985 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conference papers on marketing boards for agricultural marketing in Africa south of Sahara - gives a survey and six case studies vz. Cocoa and farmers' attitudes in Ghana, role of cooperative marketing of grain in Tanzania, peanuts in Senegal 1966-1980, state intervention in agricultural marketing in Burkina Faso 1968-1978, commodity boards in Nigeria and agricultural development and agricultural price in Malawi. Graphs, references, statistical tables. Conference held in Leiden 1983.
Download or read book Deregulation of Agricultural Marketing in South Africa written by N. Vink and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agricultural marketing in the semi arid tropics of West Africa written by Barbara Harriss and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pastoral Livestock Marketing in Eastern Africa written by John G. McPeak and published by ITDG Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth, evidence-based investigation of livestock marketing in Eastern Africa which approaches the issues from a variety of disciplinary perspectives including anthropology, economics, geography, and rangeland ecology. Editors John G. McPeak and Peter D. Little present current findings on how livestock markets in this area operate, describe policy options that help markets function more effectively, and identify topics meriting further research. The issues are examined at a variety of levels (household, market, national, and international), and many of the authors place emphasis on cross-border trade: an area not currently well understood but of substantial economic importance. The book is written in a clear, straightforward style and, though the authors come from a variety of fields, jargon and discipline-specific terms are kept to a minimum.
Download or read book Agricultural Marketing in Africa written by Edith Holt Whetham and published by London : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textbook on agricultural marketing systems in English speaking Africa - covers commodity markets in the course of development, the determination of agricultural price, competition, cooperative marketing, marketing boards, commodity agreements, administered prices, the agricultural labour market, land ownership and land tenure, etc. References and statistical tables.
