Ajustements nationaux de mécanismes prix face aux fluctuations du prix mondial: les leçons du coton en Afrique Zone Franc

Michel Fok ()
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Michel Fok: Cirad-CA-UPR 10 Systèmes cotonniers - Systèmes cotonniers en petit paysannat - CA - Département Cultures annuelles - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement

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Abstract: The French colonial power committed itself in promoting cotton, well before its colonization was achieved. Promotion eventually succeeded only from 1952 onward, thanks to the set up of a pricing mechanism which integrated the needed adaptation to world price fluctuations. Since 1985, this mechanism was adjusted several times, along the collapses of the world price which came out more frequently with great magnitude. The adjustments did not lead to the expected results, although production kept on increasing, because the cotton sectors were close to bankruptcy several times. In most African francophone countries, the very conflicting relationship between stakeholders resulted directly or indirectly from the mechanism adjustments. This article analyses the errors and difficulties in adjusting pricing mechanism under the pressure, still very vivid, of world price fluctuations.

Keywords: Cotton; Francophone Africa; price policy; volatility; commodity chain; price mechanism; player strategy; farmers organisations; NGO; Coton; Afrique Zone Franc; politique de prix; volatilité; filière; mécanisme prix; stratégie d'acteur; organisations paysannes; ONG (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-02-19
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