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Effiency factors for African cotton institutional policies |
Cahiers Agricultures. Volume 19, Number 1, 68-74, janvier-février 2010, Étude originale
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Author(s) : Michel Fok |
Summary : The paper deals with the identification of factors affecting the efficiency of cotton policies in Franc Zone African Countries on the basis of a fifty year retrospective analysis. The cotton policy is assimilated to a set of institutional arrangements, i.e. rules, or groups of rules, impacting the interaction between players involved in cotton production through their exchanges of goods, services or information. The analysis of the cotton policy’s effectiveness derives from the study of the institutional arrangements of which it is composed. It is contended that the effectiveness of an institutional arrangement depends upon both its composition and the way it has been set up to respond to farmers’ constraints and concerns. Emphasis is put on five major constraints and concerns. The demonstration takes advantage of the great contrast in institutional arrangements during two phases of cotton policies: arrangements in place prior to the cotton sector reform of the 1990s and those implemented after the reform. |
Keywords : economy and rural development, farming systems, vegetal productions |
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