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The Many Paths of Cotton Sector Reform in Eastern and Southern Africa: Lessons from a Decade of Experience

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David Tschirley () (Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University)
Colin Poulton
Duncan Boughton

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This paper assesses the record of five countries in southern and eastern Africa: Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Mozambique. The paper focuses on the course of reform in each – initial conditions, key elements of the reform, and institutional response to it – and draws lessons for policy makers, donors, and researchers.

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Paper provided by Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University in its series International Development Working Papers with number 88.

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Date of creation: 2006
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Keywords: food security food policy cotton reform

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Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy

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  1. Poulton, Colin & Gibbon, Peter & Hanyani-Mlambo, Benjamine & Kydd, Jonathan & Maro, Wilbald & Larsen, Marianne Nylandsted & Osorio, Afonso & Tschirley, David & Zulu, Ballard, 2004. "Competition and Coordination in Liberalized African Cotton Market Systems," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 32(3), pages 519-536, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Duncan Boughton & David Tschirley & Higino de Marrule & Afonso Osório & Ballard Zulu, 2002. "Cotton Sector Policies and Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons Behind the Numbers in Mozambique and Zambia," International Development Collaborative Policy Briefs MZ-MINAG-FL-34E, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. [Downloadable!]
  3. Binswanger, Hans P & McIntire, John, 1987. "Behavioral and Material Determinants of Production Relations in Land-Abundant Tropical Agriculture," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 36(1), pages 73-99, October.
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  1. Duncan Boughton & Rui M.S. Benfica, 2007. "Income Poverty Effects of Expansion and Policies in Cash Cropping Economies in Rural Mozambique: An Economy-wide Approach," International Development Collaborative Working Papers MZ-MINAG-RR-64e, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. [Downloadable!]
  2. Duncan Boughton & Rui M.S. Benfica, 2007. "Interlinked Transactions in Cash Cropping Economies: Rationale for Persistence, and the Determinants of Farmer Participation and Performance in the Zambezi Valley of Mozambique," International Development Collaborative Working Papers MZ-MINAG-RR-63e, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. [Downloadable!]
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