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Rebuilding West Africa's food potential

Policies and market incentives for smallholder-inclusive food value chains

Year of publication 2013

Author Trade and Markets Division

Product type Book (stand-alone)

ISBN 9789251075302

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This book offers an in-depth analyses of value chain policies, past and present in West Africa. The book contains a large number of in-depth case studies of food value chains in particular countries, including traditional export commodities (cocoa, cotton), high value exports (mangoes, horticulture) and the most important staple food value chains (oil palm, rice, maize, sorghum and millet and cassava) in the region. It also contains a large number of private and public initiatives, and thematic analyses relating to the role of the private agro-industry and producer organisations and their role as market agents.

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