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Cooperatives for Staple Crop Marketing

Evidence from Ethiopia

By: Tanguy Bernard,Spielman, David J.,Seyoum Taffesse, Alemayehu,Gabre-Madhin, Eleni Zaude

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Cooperatives for Staple Crop Marketing

Evidence from Ethiopia

By: Tanguy Bernard,Spielman, David J.,Seyoum Taffesse, Alemayehu,Gabre-Madhin, Eleni Zaude

Rural producer organizations (RPOs), such as farmers' organizations or rural cooperatives, offer a means for smallholder farmers in developing countries to sell their crops commercially. RPOs hold particular promise for Sub-Saharan Africa, where small-scale farming is the primary livelihood but commercialization of food crops is very limited. Using the experience of smallholders in Ethiopia as a case study, this research monograph identifies the benefits of RPOs for small farmers, as well as the conditions under which such organizations most successfully promote smallholder commercialization. The evidence from Ethiopia indicates that RPOs do increase farmers' profits from crop sales, but that the beneficiaries do not tend to be the poorest smallholders. Moreover, an RPO's marketing effectiveness is precarious: it can easily diminish if the number or diversity of its members increases or if it provides more non-marketing services. The authors conclude that RPOs have a role to play in the agricultural development of Sub-Saharan Africa, but that role should be complemented by other programs that directly target the poorest farmers. Further, the effectiveness of RPOs should be preserved by allowing them to follow their own agendas rather than being encouraged to take on non-marketing activities. The assessment of RPOs presented in this monograph should be a valuable resource for policymakers and researchers concerned with economic development and poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Intl Food Policy Res Inst

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0896291758

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Reforming agricultural markets in Africa

Achievements and challenges

By: Kherallah, Mylene,Delgado, Christopher L.,Gabre-Madhin, Eleni Z.,Minot, Nicholas,Johnson, Michael

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Reforming agricultural markets in Africa

Achievements and challenges

By: Kherallah, Mylene,Delgado, Christopher L.,Gabre-Madhin, Eleni Z.,Minot, Nicholas,Johnson, Michael

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.

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0801871980

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9780801871986

The Road Half Traveled

Agricultural Market Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa

By: Mylène Kherallah,Christopher L. Delgado,Eleni Gabre-Madhin,Nicholas Minot,Michael Johnson

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The Road Half Traveled

Agricultural Market Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa

By: Mylène Kherallah,Christopher L. Delgado,Eleni Gabre-Madhin,Nicholas Minot,Michael Johnson

The need for agricultural reform; How far did reforms go? Impact of the reforms; The future of agricultural market reform in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Market Institutions, Transaction Costs, and Social Capital in the Ethiopian Grain Market

By: Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin

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Market Institutions, Transaction Costs, and Social Capital in the Ethiopian Grain Market

By: Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin

This report addresses the overarching question regarding the role of institutions in enhancing market development following market reforms. It uses the New Institutional Economics framework to empirically analyze the role of a specific market institution, that of brokers acting as intermediaries to match traders in the Ethiopian grain market in reducing the transaction costs of search faced by traders. Brokers play a key role in facilitating exchange in a weak marketing environment where limited public market information, the lack of grain standardization, oral contracts, and weak legal enforcement of contracts increase the risk of contract failure. Relying on primary data, it analyzes traders' microeconomic behavior, social capital, the nature and extent of their transaction costs, and the norms and rules governing the relationship between brokers and traders.The study uses an innovative approach to quantify the costs of search and demonstrates that the brokerage institution is economically efficient both for individual traders and for global economic welfare.

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089629126X

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Cooperatives for Staple Crop Marketing

Cooperatives for Staple Crop Marketing

Reforming agricultural markets in Africa

Reforming agricultural markets in Africa

The Road Half Traveled

The Road Half Traveled

Market Institutions, Transaction Costs, and Social Capital in the Ethiopian Grain Market

Market Institutions, Transaction Costs, and Social Capital in the Ethiopian Grain Market

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