IFPRI--Markets and Structural Studies: Madagascar Project
IFPRI Home  >>  Research and Outreach  >>  Research Divisions  >>  Markets, Trade and Institutions Division (MTID)

Agricultural Market Reforms and Their Impact on Rural Households in Madagascar

Project Leaders: Ousmane Badiane, Francesco Goletti, and Bart Minten
On September 14-16, 1998, a final workshop and training was held in the capital city of Antananarivo. Details of this workshop as well as the interim and final reports of the study can be viewed and/or downloaded from the Research Findings section.

Overview

Recent studies on the liberalization of agricultural markets in Madagascar, which primarily focus on rice, indicate that the benefit from the reforms could be expanded greatly by removing the remaining obstacles related to structural and institutional deficiencies of markets and policies and regulations influencing the entry by private traders. The objective of the project was to study the adjustment of local marketing systems and the response of the farming sector several years after the liberalization of domestic markets in Madagascar. The study was expected to help design strategies to raise and spread economic gains from the reform process by identifying avenues to overcoming the remaining obstacles that constrain the response of the marketing system and still limit the efficiency of local input and output markets. The study also analyzed the adjustment within the farming sector and identify options for maximizing the contribution of reforms to income growth and poverty alleviation among small-holder households.

Collaboration

The project was carried out jointly by the Food Consumption and Nutrition Division (FCND) and the Markets and Structural Studies Division (MSSD) and implemented in collaboration with the Centre National de Recherches Appliquees au Developpement Rural (CENRADERU - FOFIFA) and researchers from Stanford University. Funding was provided by a grant from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

Collaboration | Research Tasks | Field Activities | Research Findings

For further information please contact: Markets and Structural Studies Division, IFPRI, 2033 K Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., 20006, U.S.A.

© Copyright and Fair Use
IFPRI holds the copyright to its publications and web pages but encourages duplication of these materials for noncommercial purposes. Proper citation is required.
go to top TOP of the page

last updated: October 22, 1998