Agricultural Markets Beyond Liberalization

Part 1: Introduction. 1. Agricultural markets beyond liberalization: Issues, Analysis and Findings; A. Kuyvenhoven, et al. 2. Agricultural markets beyond liberalization: The role of the State; E. Thorbecke. Part 2: Agricultural Markets in Transition Economies. 3. `White gold' versus `Food Self-sufficiency' in former Soviet Central Asia; M. Spoor. 4. Russian grain markets 1991-1998: Transition without a functioning domestic market? M. Kopsidis. 5. Rural land markets and economic reform in mainland China; X. Huang, et al. 6. Performance of markets in a context of liberalisation: The hog industry in Northern Vietnam; K. Le Goulven. Part 3: Market Liberalization in Africa. 7. The effects of liberalization on food markets in Africa; O. Badiane. 8. Price setting power among wholesalers and retailers: Maize in Benin and sorghum in Burkina Faso; W.E. Kuiper, et al. 9. Comparing liberalisation in agricultural input and draught animal markets in Benin; H. Dedehouanou, P.Q. van Ufford. 10. The puzzle of the absent rural formal financial institutions; J.G.M. Hoogeveen. Part 4: Liberalization: Institutions and Approaches. 11. Voluntary marketing institutions in food marketing systems; M. Meulenberg. 12. Taking gender: Social institutions as regulators of markets; B. Harriss-White. 13. Rice and corn, and the ASEAN Free Trade Area Agreement; L.A. Acosta. 14. Modeling public goods provision in agriculture; E.-A. Nuppenau, O. Badiane. About the contributors. Author Index.