Volume 19, Issue 2: Cash Crops in Developing Countries
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Editorial
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Growth and Employment Considerations in the Food vs. Export Crops Debate
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Cash Crops, Household Food Security and Nutrition
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1988)Summary Evidence on the impact of cash cropping on household food security and nutrition is mixed, but does not support their wholesale condemnation. Indeed, what the malnourished need is an entitlement to food that cash ... -
The Foreign Exchange Content of Kenyan Agriculture
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Beef Exports and Development: Experience and Prospects for Developing Countries
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Peasant Cash Cropping versus Self?suffciency in Tanzania: A Historical Perspective
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1988)Summary This article traces the upsurge and relative decline of Tanzanian peasant cash cropping between 1919 and 1987, contrasting it with the more stable pattern of peasant food production for household consumption ... -
Small?Farm Sugar Production in Fiji: Employment and Distribution Aspects
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1988)Summary The sugar industry in Fiji shows that export crop production can satisfy equity criteria without sacrificing efficiency, growth or rising real incomes. This beneficial outcome results from a small?farm structure ... -
Distributional Effects of Cash Crop Innovation: The Peripherally Commercialised Farmers of North East Ghana
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1988)Summary This is a case study of rural producer households in the savannah farming area of North East Ghana where an increasing amount of cash cropping as an integral part of the domestic economy has coincided with ... -
Sugar: The Case of Jamaica
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1988)Summary Sugar is of vital importance to many Third World countries as a source of foreign exchange earnings and employment. Yet the industry is in crisis. Falling world prices for sugar and shrinking markets have hit ... -
CASH CROPS CASE STUDIES: Doas the World Bank inhibit Smallholder Cash Cropping? The Case of Malawi
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1988)Summary This article argues that it is important to differentiate between high value export crops traditionally grown in the estate sector and other crops more often associated with the smallholder sector, in terms of ... -
Malawi's Export Crop Boom: A Reappraisal
(Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/1988)Summary The article considers the social and economic consequences of Malawi's export crop boom in the 1970s. It shows that the boom was accompanied by a marked policy bias towards large?scale farmers. It argues that if ...