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Global Food Chains, African Smallholders and World Bank Governance
Author(s) -
AMANOR KOJO SEBASTIAN
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of agrarian change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.63
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1471-0366
pISSN - 1471-0358
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0366.2009.00204.x
Subject(s) - corporate governance , agribusiness , civil society , democracy , food processing , business , quality (philosophy) , private sector , democratic governance , food security , economic growth , economics , political science , agriculture , finance , ecology , philosophy , epistemology , politics , law , biology
This paper critically examines the World Bank's analysis of the development of agribusiness in Africa in the World Development Report 2008 in relationship to its governance policies, which seek to introduce institutional reforms to promote private and public sector linkages with the participation of civil society. The paper argues that this confuses food chain governance (control over quality and the logistics of production) with democratic governance and essentially promotes oligopolization of the food industry and the interests of the powerful in the name of smallholder farmers.