Institutional constraints to agricultural development in the Sudan

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Title:	Institutional constraints to agricultural development in the Sudan
Author:	Simpson, I.G.
Book title:	Post-Independence Sudan: proceedings of a Seminar held in the Centre of African Studies
Year:	1981
Pages:	151-162
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Sudan
Subjects:	agricultural development agricultural policy
Abstract:	The disappointing agricultural performance, especially in respect of foreign exchange earnings, has been a major contributor to the economic difficulties of recent years. This stems to a considerable degree from the institutional framework through which Sudanese governments have attempted to stimulate and accelerate agricultural development. Possibly the strategy most likely to have been successful would have been that of stimulating the growth of an indigenous market orientated agriculture, in which progressive farmers would be given scope to expand their activities - a kulak agriculture. This policy runs the risk of increasing rural inequalities but rapid agricultural expansion could be sufficiently stimulative to pull up the lot of the rural poor with it provided there were adequate control to prevent the creation of a hereditary landed class. Ref.