Agricultural Markets Beyond Liberalization

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Agricultural Markets Beyond Liberalization: Issues, Analysis and Findings

      • Arie Kuyvenhoven, Henk A. J. Moll, Aad van Tilburg

      Pages 3-17

   3. Agricultural Markets Beyond Liberalization: The Role of the State

      • Erik Thorbecke

      Pages 19-53

3. Agricultural Markets in Transition Economies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55

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   2. ‘White Gold’ Versus ‘Food Self-Sufficiency’ in Former Soviet Central Asia

      • Max Spoor

      Pages 57-75

   3. Russian Grain Markets 1991-1998: Transition Without a Functioning Domestic Market?

      • Michael Kopsidis

      Pages 77-94

   4. Rural Land Markets and Economic Reform in Mainland China

      • Xianjin Huang, Nico Heerink, Ruerd Ruben, Futian Qu

      Pages 95-114

   5. Performance of Markets in a Context of Liberalisation: The Hog Industry in Northern Vietnam

      • Katell Le Goulven

      Pages 115-131

4. Market Liberalization in Africa

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133

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   2. The Effects of Liberalization on Food Markets in Africa

      • Ousmane Badiane

      Pages 135-158

   3. Price Setting Power Among Wholesalers and Retailers: Maize in Benin and Sorghum in Burkina Faso

      • W. Erno Kuiper, Clemens Lutz, Aad van Tilburg

      Pages 159-172

   4. Comparing Liberalisation in Agricultural Input and Draught Animal Markets in Benin

      • Houinsou Dedehouanou, Paul Quarles van Ufford

      Pages 173-189

   5. The Puzzle of the Absent Rural Formal Financial Institutions

      • J. G. M. Hoogeveen

      Pages 191-209

5. Liberalization: Institutions and Approaches

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-211

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   2. Voluntary Marketing Institutions in Food Marketing Systems

      • Matthew Meulenberg

      Pages 213-233

   3. Taking Gender: Social Institutions as Regulators of Markets

      • Barbara Harriss-White

      Pages 235-252

   4. Rice and Corn, and the Asean Free Trade Area Agreement

      • Lilibeth A. Acosta

      Pages 253-277

   5. Modeling Public Goods Provision in Agriculture

      • Ernst-August Nuppenau, Ousmane Badiane

      Pages 279-297

6. Back Matter

   Pages 299-309

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Agricultural markets have entered a long-term process of liberalization, with the aim of reducing imposed market imperfections such as monopolistic public trade, entry barriers and subsidies. The experience of more than a decade of agriculture liberalization offers a good opportunity to review and analyze the outcome of this process and to draw lessons for the future. The central topic in Agricultural Markets Beyond Liberalization is the relationship between market structure and how markets perform in a dynamic context during a liberalization process. The topic is studied from both a micro and macro viewpoint and refers to different types of agricultural markets. This volume brings together the dynamics of agricultural markets in several parts of the world, with a special focus on transition economics and Africa. The different studies cover geographical areas as wide as a district as well as a group of countries, and institutions from individual contracts to multi-national organizations. The analysis of liberalization under different circumstances, and the different methods of analysis used by the authors provide a valuable foundation for the assessment of liberalization.

• Food Markets
• Russia
• agriculture
• institutions
• marketing
• organization
• public goods
• rice

• Wageningen University, The Netherlands

  Aad Tilburg, Henk A. J. Moll, Arie Kuyvenhoven

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