Towards a Strategy for Improving Agricultural Input Markets in Africa

Valerie Auserehl Kelly (), Eric Winthrop Crawford (), Julie A. Howard, Thomas S. Jayne (), John M. Staatz and Michael T. Weber ()

No 43, International Development Policy Syntheses from Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University

Abstract: Host country and donor policy makers are currently revisiting the important question of how to develop realistic and sustainable strategies for improving agricultural input markets in Africa. To help inform this discussion, the objective of this policy synthesis is to review key conclusions from Food Security Project research, and outline findings about major challenges ahead.

Keywords: food security; food policy; agricultural input markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: Written 1999

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