Agricultural Supply Chains, Growth and Poverty in Sub-saharan Africa ― Market Structure, Farm Constraints and Grass-root Institutions

This book investigates if and how agricultural market structures and farm constraints affect the development of dynamic food and cash crop sectors and whether these sectors can contribute to economic transformation and poverty reduction in Africa. The authors map the current cash and food crops supply chains in six African countries, characterizing their markets structures and domestic competition policies. At the farm level, the book studies the constraints faced by small holders to increase productivity and break out of a vicious cycle in which low productivity exacerbates vulnerability to poverty. In a series of micro case studies, the project explores how cooperatives and institutions may help overcome these constraints. This book will appeal to scholars and policy makers seeking instruments to promote increased agriculture productivity, resolve food security issues, and promote agribusiness by diversifying exports and increasing trade and competitiveness.

Dr Nicolas Depetris-Chauvin is Professor of Economics and the Director of the EMBA at Haute ecole de gestion de Geneve. He is also a Research Associate at the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), Professor of International Economics at Universidad de Buenos Aires, and a Research Fellow at the Oxford Center for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies at the University of Oxford. Professor Depetris-Chauvin is an international economist with extensive research and policy analysis experience in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. He has held academic positions at the University of Oxford, the Dubai School of Government, Sciences Po, and IEMS Skolkovo Business Schoo