Lessons learnt to overcome the costly and uncertain institutional re-arrangements under the globalization process: the african cotton case
- Literature reference
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- 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
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Benin
Burkina Faso
Cameroon
Ivory Coast
Mali
Senegal
Chad
Togo
- Associated thesauruses
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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
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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.