Agricultural markets have entered a long-term process of liberalization,
with the aim of reducing imposed market imperfections such as
monopolistic public trade, entry barriers and subsidies. The experience
of more than a decade of agriculture liberalization offers a good
opportunity to review and analyze the outcome of this process and to
draw lessons for the future. The central topic in Agricultural
Markets Beyond Liberalization is the relationship between market
structure and how markets perform in a dynamic context during a
liberalization process. The topic is studied from both a micro and macro
viewpoint and refers to different types of agricultural markets. This
volume brings together the dynamics of agricultural markets in several
parts of the world, with a special focus on transition economics and
Africa. The different studies cover geographical areas as wide as a
district as well as a group of countries, and institutions from
individual contracts to multi-national organizations. The analysis of
liberalization under different circumstances, and the different methods
of analysis used by the authors provide a valuable foundation for the
assessment of liberalization.