The Impact on Farmers of Privatizing Parastatal Agricultural Monopsonies

Paul Makdissi () and Quentin Wodon

Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization, 2005, vol. 3, issue 2, 11

Abstract: International Financial Institutions have advocated the privatization of integrated agricultural monopsonies in developing countries with the hope that competition between private firms under a contract farming system would reduce inefficiencies in production and enable farmers to obtain a higher share of world commodity prices. Using a very simple theoretical model, this paper shows however that the impact of privatization and contract farming may not be positive for all farmers.

Keywords: Privatization; Cotton; Africa; Welfare (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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