Agricultural Markets Beyond Liberalization

1 Introduction.- 1 Agricultural markets beyond liberalization: Issues, Analysis and Findings.- 2 Agricultural markets beyond liberalization: The role of the State.- 2 Agricultural Markets in Transition Economies.- 3 'White gold' versus 'Food Self-sufficiency' in former Soviet Central Asia.- 4 Russian grain markets 1991-1998: Transition without a functioning domestic market?.- 5 Rural land markets and economic reform in mainland China.- 6 Performance of markets in a context of liberalisation: The hog industry in Northern Vietnam.- 3 Market Liberalization in Africa.- 7 The effects of liberalization on food markets in Africa.- 8 Price setting power among wholesalers and retailers: Maize in Benin and sorghum in Burkina Faso.- 9 Comparing liberalisation in agricultural input and draught animal markets in Benin.- 10 The puzzle of the absent rural formal financial institutions.- 4 Liberalization: Institutions and approaches.- 11 Voluntary marketing institutions in food marketing systems.- 12 Taking gender: Social institutions as regulators of markets.- 13 Rice and corn, and the ASEAN Free Trade Area Agreement.- 14 Modeling public goods provision in agriculture.- About the contributors.- Author index.