Author: Jones, William O.
Title: Marketing Staple Food Crops in Tropical Africa
Description: Ithaca [NY], Cornell University Press, (1972). orig.cloth. 22x14cm, xiii,293 pp, Some pencilled and inked marks to several page-margins.. Textual maps & tables.. Some rubbing. Good. In a rubbed & torn dustwrapper. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: The Problem: Some Alleged Imperfections; Earlier Studies of Food Marketing; The Present Study; Economic Setting: The Tropical African Export Achievement; Composition of African Diets; Market Demand for Staple Foods; The National Economics: The Food Economics; Areas of Study; The Commodities: Staples & Supplementary Foods; Attributes Significant in Marketing; Staples; Supplementary Foods; Staple Food Marketing in Southern Nigeria: Earlier Marketing Systems; The Marketing Chain; Seasonality of Supplies; Competition; The Structure of Staple Food Marketing in Nigeria Revealed by Price Analysis: Seasonal Price Variation; Relationships Among Markets; Short-Term Fluctuation; The Behavior of Markets; Sierra Leone: The Structure of Trade; Evolution of Food Trade; Big Trade & Small Trade; The Market Chain; Concentration; Credit; Seasonality; Price Relationship Among Areas; Trading Margins; Kenya: Arguments for Control; Development of Rural Markets; The Market Chain; Trading Margins; Price Variation; A Dual Marketing System; The Four Marketing Systems: Monopoly & State Intervention; Imperfections; Countervailing Imperfections; Policy Implications of the Studies: Market Information; Bargaining Position of Farmers; Spatial Arbitrage; Larger Fims; Commodity Exchanges; Possible Government Actions; Government & Marketing.

Keywords: Agricultural Economics, Staple Food Crops, Agriculture Nigeria, Tropical Africa, Marketing Economy, Economic History, Produce Trade, Kenya Development, Sierra Leone