Incentives, Institutions, and Small Scale Agricultural Production
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20148735 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tsutomu Takane (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 1999 |
| Issue | 54 |
| Pages | 1-18 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0065-4140 • E-ISSN: 1884-5533 |
| Publisher | Japan Association for African Studies (PUBLISHER • JP) |
| DOI | 10.11619/africa1964.1999.1 |
| OpenAlex | W2335732520 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Drawing on a case study of three cocoa-producing villages in southern Ghana, this paper attempts to reveal some incentive structures embedded in agrarian contracts and local institutions. Most literature on export-crop production in Ghana has tried to analyze the production incentives of farmers in terms of price changes. Although this aspect is important, regarding price as the sole explanatory factor is far from satisfactory in understanding the complex realities in rural Africa.By analyzing the share contracts widely practiced in southern Ghana, the present study argues that local institutions such as land tenure systems and agrarian contracts also provide strong incentives and disincentives to agricultural production. It is therefore necessary that short-term price incentives are placed in some wider, long-term incentive structures embedded in the complex interactions among local institutions
Agrarian reform · Agrarian society · Agricultural economics · Agricultural productivity · Agriculture · Business · Economics · Geography · Incentive · Land tenure · Market economy · Microeconomics · Production (economics) · Public economics · Scale (ratio) · Agricultural Innovations and Practices · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Land Rights and Reforms
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |