Download or read book Private Sector Response to Agricultural Marketing Liberalization in Zambia written by Dennis Chiwele and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 1998 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines the efficacy of the agricultural sector reforms that have been implemented in Zambia since 1991/92 when the MMD government of Fred Chiluba was elected to office. On the basis of empirical material gathered in the field, the report demonstrates the limitations of the reform and identifies a number of constraints that have hampered the private sector and made the agricultural marketing system remain relatively underdeveloped.
Download or read book Private sector response to agricultural marketing liberalisation in Zambia written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A report from the research programme The Political and Social Context of Structural Adjustment in Africa.
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 Listening to Farmers written by Paul A. Francis and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1991, radical changes have taken place in the policy and institutional environment governing the agriculture sector in Zambia. Policies of liberalization and privatization have entailed the replacement of previously state-supplied agricultural services (notably credit, inputs supply and agricultural marketing) by private sector provision. The Agricultural Sector Investment Program (ASIP), assisted by the World Bank, provides the context for continuing agricultural policy development, as well as for the integration of previously fragmented projects and programs in the sector. ASIP is predicated upon participation in program design and implementation by the full range of stakeholders in the public, private and non-governmental sectors. As a means both of improving program implementation and of promoting the active participation of beneficiaries and other actors, ASIP has established systematic and regular feedback between policy makers and service providers, and those affected by programs, using methods such as Participatory Rural Appraisal.
Download or read book Institutional Changes in Agricultural Product and Input Markets and Their Impact on Agricultural Performance written by A. M. Thompson and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 1991 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Road Half Traveled written by Mylène Kherallah and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2000 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The need for agricultural reform; How far did reforms go? Impact of the reforms; The future of agricultural market reform in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Download or read book Marketing Africa s High value Foods written by Steven Jaffee and published by Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The study concentrates on private processing and marketing of high-value foods, including fresh and processed fruits and vegetables, meat and dairy products, fresh and processed fish, oilseeds and vegetable oil, nuts, and spices"--Back cover.
Download or read book Perspectives on Agricultural Transformation written by Thomas S. Jayne and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspectives on Agricultural Transformation - A View From Africa
Download or read book Smallholder Farming and Agricultural Services in Zambia written by Chosani A. Njobvu and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Left Behind written by Jeremy Gould and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2010 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Left Behind: Rural Zambia in the Third Republic seeks to identify persistent obstacles associated with integrating rural producers into the national economy. The analysis draws primarily on studies of the southern Luapula plateau. The economic citizenship of rural Zambians is an end in itself, but it also helps secure their democratic participation in defining the means and ends of the nation's development. Small-scale farmers have generally lost out on both counts. For all of its much-touted 'potential', agriculture remains a back-breaking, unrewarding and uncertain livelihood for most Zambians, much as it was at independence forty-five years ago. The findings presented here demonstrate how government officials, chiefs and MPs are often distracted by concerns related more to their own, rather than their constituencies' fortunes. When will rural Zambians find the means to have their voice heard in the corridors of power?
Download or read book Agricultural policy reforms and regional market integration in Malawi Zambia and Zimbabwe written by Alberto Valdés and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General policy environment; Current status of and reform proposals for agriculture; Effects of domestic policy reforms on food security; Potential for intraregional trade.
Download or read book Private sector responses to public investments and policy reforms The case of fertilizer and maize market development in Kenya written by Joshua Ariga, T. S. Jayne and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dynamics of Marketing in African Nations written by Sonny Nwankwo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-05-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consider Africa—not with pre-established mindsets, unexamined assumptions, and bland generalizations—but for what Africa actually is: a setting in which marketers can gather new ideas and test old ones and perhaps emerge with a more varied, certain sense of what the marketing enterprise itself, is all about. Nwankwo, Aiyeku, and their contributing authors, all specialists with a remarkably wide range of experience and viewpoints, uncover the unexpected factors that they are certain will determine the success of selling just about any product or service to established or developing African nations. Original, eclectic, and agenda-setting, their book provides a startling insight into the dynamics of marketing in this fascinating region of the world as it continues to initiate the new macroeconomic and political reforms that are transforming the African continent into an important player on the international business scene. Nwankwo and Aiyeku see their book as a welcome attempt to identify and explore the institutional processes in which not only the study but also the practice of marketing is embedded. They work with three main themes: the processual issues, including theory development and the reconceptualization of conventional paradigms; the nature of the interrelationships that shape the dynamics of marketing overall; and the context-specific dimensions of marketing generally, its marketing operations. As the volume editors state: By and large, African nations present new contexts and new strategic challenges. As they become focused, certain general approaches as to how various characteristics influence marketing behaviors have to be established. This book, through addressing these contextual issues, provides a better focus for creating a relevant set of marketing activities in African situations.
Download or read book Gender and Agricultural Supply Responses to Structural Adjustment Programmes written by Grace Ongile and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 1999 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates the gender implications of agricultural sector reform in Kenya. The author focuses on smallholder tea production with the aim of pinpointing the factors that influence the adoption of tea among male and female farmers, assessing female farmers perceptions of the changes in living standards over the research period, and suggesting appropriate policy reforms to ensure that women 's interests are taken into account in the design of agricultural reforms.
Download or read book Public Policy and Agricultural Development written by Ha-Joon Chang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically re-examines the currently dominant paradigm of agricultural development policy from historical and comparative perspectives. Examining the experiences of 11 developed countries in their earlier stages of development and the experiences of 10 developing and transition economies in the last half a century, the book offers an in-depth discussion on a range of public policies for agriculture, some currently in use and others forgotten in the mist of history. After presenting the overarching theoretical framework and a synthesis of findings over the 21 countries examined, the book presents six detailed case studies of agricultural policy in the last half a century in two Latin American countries (Chile and Mexico), two African countries (Ethiopia and Ghana), and two Asian countries (India and Vietnam). Each chapter examines a wide range of policies, including land policy (land tenure reform and land quality improvement), knowledge policy (research, extension, education, and information), credit policy (specialized banks and agricultural credit co-operatives), physical inputs policy (irrigation, transport, electricity, and divisible inputs such as fertilizers, seeds, and farm machinery), policies intended to increase farm income stability (price stabilization measures, insurances, and trade protection), and policies intended to improve agricultural marketing and processing. Through its historical and comparative approaches, the book frees our "policy imagination" by showing that the range of policies and institutions that have produced positive outcomes for agricultural development has been much wider than any particular ideological position – be it the pre-1980s statist one or the pro-market NCW – would admit. It also shows that the willingness to experiment with new policies and institutions, and the willingness to learn from other countries’ successes and improve upon their solutions, were important in all agricultural success stories.
Download or read book Listening to Farmers written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agro-ecological.
