This textbook, published in 1987, presents a selection of marketing
enterprises, drawn from throughout the tropics, which succeeded under
the conditions prevailing in developing countries. They include the
whole range of marketing systems from indigenous private enterprise,
through transnationals as joint ventures, to co-operatives and
parastatal organisations. They have also been selected to reflect the
handling of the various agricultural products and the successive phases
in the marketing operation from assembly by small farmers to the
processing and distribution of the final product for consumption. This
dynamic and readable approach will be enjoyed by students of marketing
and agricultural economics, and by those concerned with improvements to
marketing systems. Students of development economics will also find this
work an interesting addition to the standard texts.