Lessons learnt to overcome the costly and uncertain institutional re-arrangements under the globalization process: the african cotton case

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  • Literature reference
  • Author
  • M. Fok and S. Tazi
  • English title of the work
  • Lessons learnt to overcome the costly and uncertain institutional re-arrangements under the globalization process: the african cotton case
  • Title of the work
  • Lessons learnt to overcome the costly and uncertain institutional re-arrangements under the globalization process: the african cotton case
  • Year of publication
  • 2004
  • Author's email
  • michel.fok@cirad.fr
  • Publisher's address
  • Florence
  • URL Address
  • http://agents.cirad.fr/pjjimg/michel.fok@cirad.fr/Fok_Institu_construct.pdf
  • Countries concerned
  • Benin
    Burkina Faso
    Cameroon
    Ivory Coast
    Mali
    Senegal
    Chad
    Togo
  • Associated thesauruses
  • Colire
  • Keywords Colire
  • Technology factor of production cost
    Seed
    Crop protection
    Association types
    Cotton producers' groups
    Cotton village associations
    Cotton producers' unions
    Interprofessional associations
    Measure description
    Direct support measures
    Policy measures
    Role of parastatal organizations
    Monopoly
    Cotton para-statals
    National framework & techno. access
    Equipment credit
    Policy for techno access
    Technique message supply
    Input credit
    Intensification promotion
  • Saved on
  • 2011-12-14
  • Modifed on
  • 2011-12-14
  • Administrated by
  • Fok Michel
  • Abstract
  • Cotton production in the Francophone African Countries (FACs) derives exclusively from smallholders whose holding size is less than 5 ha on average. From the 1990s, the FACs are globally ranking third to second in exporting cotton to the world market. Such an achievement could be regarded as the result of an institutional construction which took place for four decades in dealing with the smallholders' constraints and concerns. Since the mid-1990s, the FACs are engaged into processes of privatization/liberalization, at distinct modalities, within the implementation of globalization-oriented policies. Drastic changes are now observed in pricing mechanisms, provision of inputs and credit to farmers...etc. These changes imply modifications in the responsibilities sharing between stakeholders, with modalities which are implying sometimes disharmony and uncertainty within the sector. This is an illustration of the construction-feature of new institutional arrangements which can hardly be automatically acceptable to all. The paper provides an analysis of the institutional construction in dealing with few major constraints or concerns faced by the smallholders in the FACs.