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Title: | Agricultural Diversification and Export Promotion in Sub-Saharan Africa |
Author: | Delgado, Christopher L. |
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. |