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Title: | Smallholder cash crop production under market liberalisation: a new institutional economics perspective |
Editors: | Dorward, A. Kydd, J. Poulton, C. |
Year: | 1998 |
Pages: | 280 |
Language: | English |
City of publisher: | Wallingford |
Publisher: | CAB International |
ISBN: | 0851992773 |
Geographic terms: | Subsaharan Africa Ghana Tanzania |
Subjects: | agricultural economy economic policy cash crops small farms cotton cashew nuts |
Abstract: | This collective volume examines some of the challenges facing smallholder cash crop production in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia under current policies of market liberalization. It looks not just at activity in the crop output market, but also at the performance of liberalized markets for seasonal inputs and, in particular, at linkages between the input and output markets. The book is informed by a 'new institutional economics' perspective, which focuses on problems of market failure and the incentives for economic agents to devise 'institutional' responses to these problems. Contributions: A new institutional economics perspective on current policy debates, by Colin Poulton, Andrew Dorward, Jonathan Kydd, Nigel Poole and Laurence Smith; Cotton production and marketing in northern Ghana: the dynamics of competition in a system of interlocking transactions, by Colin Poulton; The cashew sector in southern Tanzania: overcoming problems of input supply, by Colin Poulton; Cotton and wheat marketing and the provision of preharvest services in Sindh Province, Pakistan, by Mike Stockbridge, Laurence Smith and Hari Ram Lohano; Conclusions: new institutional economics, policy debates and the research agenda, by Andrew Dorward, Jonathan Kydd and Colin Poulton. [ASC Leiden abstract] |