Parallel Rice Markets: Policy Lessons from Northern Senegal

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Title:	Parallel Rice Markets: Policy Lessons from Northern Senegal
Author:	Morris, Michael L.
Year:	1988
Periodical:	Food Policy
Volume:	13
Issue:	3
Period:	August
Pages:	257-269
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Senegal
Subjects:	market rice Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Economics and Trade Politics and Government
External link:	https://doi.org/10.1016/0306-9192(88)90048-6
Abstract:	Cereals policy reform in Africa is often cast in terms of a choice between 'public-sector' and 'private-sector' solutions. Recent evidence from northern Senegal, including empirical data on parallel channel rice marketing activities collected in 1984-1985, suggests that excessive reliance on either the State or the private sector is likely to result in unsatisfactory performance. Despite the claims of government authorities to the contrary, the performance of parallel channel marketing agents in the Senegal River valley compares favourably with that of the State grain marketing organizations. However, profit-motivated private traders are unlikely to meet all national food policy objectives, implying a continuing role for government participation in marketing activities. Notes, ref.