Improving the Impact of Market Reform on Agricultural Productivity in Africa: How Institutional Design Makes a Difference

Thomas S. Jayne (), James D. Shaffer, John M. Staatz and Thomas Reardon

No 66, International Development Working Papers from Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University

Abstract: This paper reviews the emerging empirical record of agricultural marketing policy reform and agricultural productivity, drawing from research on food access and agricultural productivity supported by USAID’s Africa Bureau on seven countries in West, Eastern, and Southern Africa. We also examine key factors constraining past and future performance of the food systems in these countries. The paper concludes by identifying a set of policy issues for further consideration that would help provide the investment incentives to promote productivity growth for the millions of low-input semi-subsistence rural households in the region.

Keywords: food security; food policy; market reform (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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