Improving the Impact of Market Reform on Agricultural Productivity in Africa: How Institutional Design Makes a Difference

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Improving the Impact of Market Reform on Agricultural Productivity in Africa: How Institutional Design Makes a Difference

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T. S. Jayne () (Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University)
James D. Shaffer
John M. Staatz
Thomas Reardon

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This paper reviews the emerging empirical record of agricultural marketing policy reform and agricultural productivity, drawing from research on food access and agricultural productivity supported by USAID’s Africa Bureau on seven countries in West, Eastern, and Southern Africa. We also examine key factors constraining past and future performance of the food systems in these countries. The paper concludes by identifying a set of policy issues for further consideration that would help provide the investment incentives to promote productivity growth for the millions of low-input semi-subsistence rural households in the region.

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Paper provided by Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University in its series International Development Working Papers with number 66.

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Length: 39 pages
Date of creation: 1997
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Q13 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Markets and Marketing; Cooperatives; Agribusiness

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Michael L. Morris & Michael T. Weber, 1983. "Programmable Calculator (TI-59) Programs for Marketing and Price Analysis in Third World Countries," International Development Working Papers 11, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. [Downloadable!]
Carl Liedholm & Joan Parker, 1989. "Small Scale Manufacturing Growth in Africa: Initial Evidence," International Development Working Papers 33, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. [Downloadable!]

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