Some policy issues of livestock marketing in Africa













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by

Solomon Bekure*
International Livestock Centre for Africa and

and

Iain McDonald**
Ministry Of Agriculture and Livestock Development
Kenya

1 Most of these issues are dealt with in an expanded paper presented at the Conference on Advancing Agricultural Production in Africa, held at Arusha, Tanzania, 12-18 February 1984 (Bekure and McDonald, 1984).

* Agricultural Economist, International Livestock Centre for Africa (ILCA), P. O. Box 46847, Nairobi, Kenya.

** Agricultural Economist, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, P. O. Box 68228, Nairobi, Kenya.

ALPAN - AFRICAN LIVESTOCK POLICY ANALYSIS NETWORK

Network Paper No. 2
January 1985

13 JUN 1987

INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK CENTRE FOR AFRICA (ILCA)
P.O. Box 5689, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Tel: 18 32 15 - Telex: ADDIS 21207

Views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and should not necessarily be interpreted as reflecting those of ILCA or the Kenya Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development.

This electronic document has been scanned using optical character recognition (OCR) software and careful manual recorrection. Even if the quality of digitalisation is high, the FAO declines all responsibility for any discrepancies that may exist between the present document and its original printed version.


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Introduction

Transport

Market regulation

Price controls

State participation

Conclusion

References