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Periodical article Periodical article Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat catalogue WorldCat
Title:Agricultural Diversification and Export Promotion in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author:Delgado, Christopher L.ISNI
Year:1995
Periodical:Food Policy
Volume:20
Issue:3
Period:June
Pages:225-243
Language:English
Geographic term:Subsaharan Africa
Subjects:export promotion
agricultural policy
agricultural exports
crop diversification
Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
Development and Technology
Economics and Trade
External link:https://doi.org/10.1016/0306-9192(95)00015-7
Abstract:Economies in sub-Saharan Africa are dependent on agricultural exports and are faced with the need to adjust to long-term declines in their terms of trade of up to one-half since the 1960s. This adjustment is likely to require changes in agricultural output mix. The fact that African economies are typically only 'semi-open', with high transfer costs and large nontradeable rural sectors, suggests that a deliberate and commodity-specific approach to supporting agricultural production will be necessary, in addition to the necessary remedy of overall market reform. The author suggests three closely-related sets of commodity-specific policies to promote growth, adjustment to relative price changes and increased employment through proactive support to agricultural diversification. These are: the promotion of non-staple-food agricultural exports through lowering the risk of food insecurity; the creation of trade policies between low and high agricultural export potential zones; and the promotion of nontraditional agricultural exports. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum.
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