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Title

Agricultural markets from theory to practice : field experience in developing countries / edited by Barbara Harriss-White.

Publication

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

Harriss-White, Barbara, 1946-

Description

xv, 369 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

• In an era of globalisation, private markets are expected to dominate the distribution of goods worldwide. Yet surprisingly little empirical work has been conducted on them. The sensitive and secret nature of trading information, the complexity of real markets and the lack of official data other than that on price are all problematic. This book seeks to overcome these by examining arguably the most difficult markets of all - agricultural markets under conditions of underdevelopment.
• Case studies from several countries covering all three under-developed continents offer a comprehensive overview of the lessons to be learnt from field experience.

Subjects

• Produce trade > Developing countries
• Food supply > Developing countries

Note

• "First published in Great Britain 1999 by Macmillan Press Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• 1. Introduction: Visible Hands / Barbara Harriss-White -- 2. Village-Level Exchange: Lessons from South India / Wendy Olsen -- 3. Social Stratification and Exchange in West African Conditions: A Participatory Approach to the Classification of Producers and Net Consumers of Marketed Surplus / Bernd Christiansen -- 4. The Post-Harvest System in Indonesia / Priscilla Magrath -- 5. Researching the Market System in Bangladesh / Ben Crow -- 6. Methods for Tracing Rapid Market Change: Urban Grain Supply Networks in Tanzania / Deborah Fahy Bryceson -- 7. Unstandardised Measures and the Analysis of Price Efficiency: An Application in Benin / Bernd Christiansen -- 8. The Use of Hedonic Price Analysis in Agricultural Research: Market Prices and the Quality Characteristics of Beans in Colombia / Luz Alicia Jimenez Portugal and Matthias von Oppen -- 9. Large Data Bases: The Nineteenth-Century English Corn Returns - 'Not worth the paper that they are written on'? / Lucy Adrian --
• 10. The Analysis of Integration: New Methodologies for Domestic Commodity Markets / Theodosios Palaskas -- 11. Testing Market Integration: Some Critical Comments / George Jones -- 12. Power in Peasant Markets / Barbara Harris-White -- 13. Gender, Markets and Fieldwork in Developing Countries; with Special Reference to West Africa / Elsbeth Robson -- 14. The Relevance of Religion and Culture to Commercial Accumulation: Fieldwork on Muslim Hausa Exchange and Agricultural Trade in Northern Nigeria / Paul Clough -- 15. The Black Box of the State: Studying State Interventions in Food Markets / Jos Mooij -- 16. Epilogue: Best and Worst Practice, Surprises and Lessons / Barbara Harriss-White.

ISBN

0312214510 (cloth)

LCCN

98021913

OCLC

• 39210067
• ocm39210067

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries