Agricultural Markets from Theory to Practice: Field Experience in Developing Countries

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction: Visible Hands....Pages 1-36
Front Matter....Pages 37-39
Village Level Exchange: Lessons from South India....Pages 40-86
Social Stratification and Exchange in West African Conditions: A Participatory Approach to the Classification of Producers and Net Consumers of Marketed Surplus....Pages 87-92
Front Matter....Pages 93-95
The Post-Harvest System in Indonesia....Pages 96-114
Researching the Market System in Bangladesh....Pages 115-150
Methods for Tracing Rapid Market Change: Urban Grain Supply Networks in Tanzania....Pages 151-166
Front Matter....Pages 167-170
Unstandardised Measures and the Analysis of Price Efficiency: An Application in Benin....Pages 171-179
The Use of Hedonic Price Analysis in Agricultural Research: Market Prices and the Quality Characteristics of Beans in Colombia....Pages 180-190
Large Data Bases: The Nineteenth-Century English Corn Returns — ‘Not worth the paper that they are written on’?....Pages 191-217
The Analysis of Price Integration: New Methodologies for Domestic Commodity Markets....Pages 218-243
Testing Market Integration: Some Critical Comments....Pages 244-256
Front Matter....Pages 257-260
Power in Peasant Markets....Pages 261-286
Gender, Markets and Fieldwork in Developing Countries, with Special Reference to West Africa....Pages 287-304
The Relevance of Religion and Culture to Commercial Accumulation: Fieldwork on Muslim Hausa Exchange and Agricultural Trade in Northern Nigeria....Pages 305-322
The Black Box of the State: Studying the Politics of Food Distribution Policy....Pages 323-347
Epilogue: Best and Worst Practice, Surprises and Lessons....Pages 348-354
Back Matter....Pages 355-369