Development of the Grain Market and Merchants in Burkina Faso

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Title:	Development of the Grain Market and Merchants in Burkina Faso
Author:	Saul, Mahir
Year:	1986
Periodical:	Journal of Modern African Studies
Volume:	24
Issue:	1
Pages:	127-153
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Burkina Faso
Subjects:	grain trade cereals Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Economics and Trade
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/160515
Abstract:	The nature of the grain market in Burkina Faso has been radically transformed since World War II. The enlarging of the cash sector, the demand created by the colonial government, and the growth of the cities were the major factors in this transformation. A professional group of traders emerged, and in the central part of the country, where the market developed under greater pressure, women who traditionally held this trade were largely reduced to insignificance. Another series of changes occurred around the time of independence and in the 1960s. The grain trade was associated with the collection and export of oil crops, and a clear differentiation took place among the middlemen who were involved on the basis of capital ownership and scale of operation. Notes, ref.