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Improving the Impact of Market Reform on Agricultural Productivity in Africa: How Institutional Design Makes a Difference
Abstract: This paper reviews the emerging empirical record of agricultural marketing policy reform and
agricultural productivity, drawing from research on food access and agricultural productivity
supported by USAID’s Africa Bureau on seven countries in West, Eastern, and Southern Africa.
We also examine key factors constraining past and future performance of the food systems in
these countries. The paper concludes by identifying a set of policy issues for further consideration
that would help provide the investment incentives to promote productivity growth for the millions
of low-input semi-subsistence rural households in the region.