Trends in African Agricultural Trade |
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| Authors: | J. Dirck Stryker Katherine E. Baird |
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| Affiliation: | Josia Dirck Stryker;is President of Associates for International resources and Development, a research and consulting firm specializing in economic devlopment, and Associate Professor for International Economic Relations at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. He has also taught at Yale University and was Visiting Associate Professor at the Food Research Institute, Stanford University. Dr. Stryker has worked extensively in North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa since 1967. He is a frequent consultant to the U.S. Agency for International Development and the World Bank and has written numerous reports, articles, and books dealing with agricultural development, livestock economics, natural resource managements, international economics, and development policy. Katherine E. Baird;leads a World Bank-funded study of comparative advantage in Bermuda's agricultural sector. In recent years she has collaborated on a number of studies examining agricultural policy in Guinea, Madagascar, Morocco, and Bangladesh. Earlier she served as an agricultural extension agent with the Mauritanian Ministry of Rural Development, in which she worked with cooperatives in organizing and improving irrigated agricultural systems. |
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| Abstract: | Sub-Saharan agriculture, with few exceptions, has stagnated despite official goals of achieving self-sufficiency and increasing export earnings. African agriculture has suffered deteriorating terms of trade, inadequate technology and infrastructure, and policies which severely discourage agricultural enterprise. In some countries structural adjustment and policy reform are occurring, and there remains great potential for agricultural development due in part to prospective advantages in natural resources and abundant labor. Discussed here are a specific set of institutional reforms needed to mobilize agricultural entrepreneurship. |
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