INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE IN INDIAN AGRICULTURE
Globalization, privatization and scientific advancements pose new challenges and opportunities for the development of Indian agriculture. The emerging paradigm shifts focus to creation and application of new knowledge for agricultural development and global competitiveness. To facilitate this shift and realize greater economic efficiency, a new set of responsive institutions should emerge. This volume discusses the direction of institutional change in Indian agriculture. The roles of the state, markets and collective actions are examined for evolving the knowledge-intensive agriculture. The contributed papers from a number of leading researchers cover the institutions for R&D, land and water resources, credit, marketing, trade and agro-processing.
Small Farmers, Big Business: Contract Farming and Rural Development
Acknowledgements - Introduction - Frozen Vegetable in Guatemala: Tapping the Small Farmer's Potential - Asparagus in Peru: Expanding the Agricultural Frontier - McCain Foods, Canada: The Political Economy of Monopoly - Mumias and KTDA, Kenya: Public Sector Participation - Commodity Sketches: Mini-cases from Latin America - Conclusions - Policy Implications - References - Index
The Use of Qualitative Information in Macro-Economic Policy Analysis
The majority of macro-economic policy models takes for granted that conflicts among objectives can be assessed by means of a tradeoff analysis. Such tradeoffs imply that sacrifices and benefits of various impacts of decisions can be measured on a cardinal scale, so that a conventional macro-economic utility or welfare analysis can be applied.