Prices, Products, and People : : Analyzing Agricultural Markets in Developing Countries / / ed. by Gregory J. Scott.

The authors offer a series of applied methods, amply illustrated with research results, for data collection and analysis related to agricultural marketing in developing countries.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]
©1995
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (520 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables and Figures
  • Foreword
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction Agricultural Marketing Research in Developing Countries: Old Tasks and New Challenges
  • Part 1 Field Methods
  • 1 Rapid Reconnaissance Methods for Diagnosis of Sub-Sector Limitations: Maize in Paraguay
  • 2 Using Rapid Appraisal to Examine Coarse Grain Processing and Utilization in Mali
  • 3 The Policy Analysis Matrix Applied to Agricultural Commodity Markets
  • 4 A Multi-Product Sub-Sector Study in Rwanda
  • 5 Methods for Evaluating the Market Potential of Processed Products
  • Part 2 Field Methods
  • 6 Field Methods for Exploring the Role of Indigenous Rural Periodic Markets in Developing Countries
  • 7 Wall-to-Wall Fieldwork: Secondary Data Collection for Food Systems Research
  • 8 Field and Analytical Methods for Agricultural Commercialization Studies: Guatemala
  • 9 Industrial Organization and Market Analysis: Fish Marketing
  • 10 Socioeconomic Methods for the Study of Input Markets: Seed Potato in Argentina
  • Part 3 Analytical Methods
  • 11 A Primer on Marketing Channels and Margins
  • 12 Using Microcomputer Spreadsheets for Spatial and Temporal Price Analysis: An Application to Rice and Maize in Ecuador
  • 13 Efficiency and Complexity: Distributive Margins and the Profits of Market Enterprises
  • 14 Analyzing Market Integration
  • 15 Pricing Conduct of Spatially Differentiated Markets
  • Part 4 Analytical Methods
  • 16 A Financial Model for the Implementation and Evaluation of Small-Scale Agro-Enterprises
  • 17 Markets, Transaction Costs, and Selectivity Models in Economic Development
  • 18 Measuring Welfare Benefits from Marketing Improvements: Potato Storage in Tunisia
  • 19 Spatial Equilibrium Models in Agricultural Marketing Research: A Simplified Exposition
  • 20 Programming Models: Potential Applications to Agricultural Marketing Research
  • 21 Equilibrium Displacement Modelling: An Application to Indonesian Food Price Policy
  • Index
  • About the Book and Editor
  • Errata