Cotton Sector Policies and Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons Behind the Numbers in Mozambique and Zambia/Доклад на 25 конференции IAAE, Reshaping Agriculture’s Contribution to Society, International Convention Centre, Durban, South Africa, 16-23 August 2003
Опубликовано на портале: 25-11-2003
2003
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Cotton is one of the most important smallholder cash crops in Sub-Saharan Africa
(SSA). How to ensure
input supply, credit recovery and competition is a subject of intense policy debate.
This paper examines the
performance of cotton sector development policies in Mozambique and Zambia.
Both countries face the
challenge of organizing input supply to farmers in the absence of rural
credit markets, and competing in
international markets distorted by production subsidies in developed countries.
Both countries privatized
cotton ginning in the 1990s. Emerging from civil war, Mozambique established geographical
monopolies to
interlink input and output markets and facilitate credit recovery. In
Zambia, the government completely
liberalized the cotton sector, forcing the private sector to deal with
the problem of input distribution and
credit recovery by itself. Despite being landlocked, Zambia.s cotton sector has
achieved better performance
in terms of both value of cotton output per hectare and smallholder share
of world market prices. An
analysis of the institutional and technical factors behind the two countries. performance
provides insights to
guide the design of public/private partnerships relevant to many SSA countries.
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