Competition and Coordination in Liberalized African Cotton Market Systems

By C. Poulton, P. Gibbon, B. Hanyani-Mlambo, J. Kydd, Wilbald Maro, M. N. Larsen, Afonso Osório, D. Tschirley, B. Zulu. 2004

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Subfields: Anthropology

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Why do small-scale producers choose to produce under contract? Lessons from nontraditional vegetable exports from Zimbabwe (2005, background): “…contract production may, provided it supplies highquality services and offers prices that enable a certain minimum level of economic returns, be one solution to weaknesses in public policies and prevailing market institutions (see e.g., Boselie, Henson, & Weatherspoon, 2003; Poulton et al., 2004).”
The Future of Small Farms: New Directions for Services, Institutions and Intermediation (2010, background): “This means that it presents considerable challenges even in cash crop systems where buyers are effectively providing extension services and may thus require some coordination involvement by the state (see for example Poulton et al. 2004).”
Commercialization and upgrading in the aquaculture value chain in Zambia (2017, background): “Coordination in a value chain is defined as the efforts or measures that players make in a market system to act in a complementary way towards a common goal (Poulton et al., 2004).”
Rural livelihoods and poverty reduction policies. (2005, unknown): “Notes * This chapter is an abridged and edited version of a paper published in World Development (Poulton et al. 2004).”
Implications of market and coordination failures for rural development in least developed countries (2004, background): “There have also been positive impacts in the supply chains for some cash crops in some countries, but the record here is mixed (see Poulton et al. 2003 for a discussion of cotton, for example).”
Overcoming Market Constraints on Pro‐Poor Agricultural Growth in Sub‐Saharan Africa (2006, unknown): “…may have a role here in helping to find an appropriate balance between inter-company co-ordination (to protect the investments of large firms from opportunistic activity by smaller competitors) and competition (to promote efficiency and equitable prices paid to smallholders) (Poulton et al., 2004).”
Smallholder market participation: Concepts and evidence from eastern and southern Africa (2008, background): “, 2000, 2005), cotton in Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe (Poulton et al., 2004), and cotton and tobacco in Mozambique (Boughton et al.”
Organization and Performance of Cotton Sectors in Africa : Learning from Reform Experience (2009, background): “There are two reasons: First, existing work (Poulton et al. 2004) has focused more on process indicators than on outcome, indicators.”