Structural Adjustment and the Agricultural Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean

306 Pages·1995·31.58 MB·English

by  John Weeks (eds.)

Edited by
John
Weeks
STRUCTUUL
ADJUSTMENT AND
THE AGRICULTUUL
SECTOR IN LATIN
AMERICA AND THE
CARIBBEAN
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STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT AND THE
AGRICULTURAL SECTOR IN LATIN AMERICA
AND THE CARIBBEAN
INSTITUTE OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES SERIES
General Editor: Victor Bulmer-Thomas, Professor of Economics and
Director, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London
The Institute of Latin American Studies, a member of the School of Ad
vanced Study of the University of London, was founded in 1965. The
Institute is dedicated to research on Latin America in the social sciences
and humanities. The purpose of this series is to disseminate to a wide
audience the new work based on the research programmes and projects
organised by academic staff and Associate Fellows of the Institute of
Latin American Studies.
Structural Adjustment
and the Agricultural
Sector in Latin America
and the Caribbean
Edited by
John Weeks
Professor of Development Economics and
Director, Centre for Development Studies,
School of Oriental and African Studies
and Associate Fellow of the Institute of
Latin American Studies, University of London
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Structural adjustment and the agricultural sector in Latin America and
the Caribbean I edited by John Weeks.
p. em.-(Institute of Latin American Studies series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-312-12679-4
I. Structural adjustment (Economic policy)-Latin America.
2. Agriculture-Economic aspects-Latin America. I. Weeks, John,
1941- . II. Series.
HCI25.S815 1995
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements vii
List of Contributors ix
List of Tables xi
List of Figures XV
Introduction
John Weeks 1
Chapter 1 Rural Development and Agrarian Issues in
Contemporary Latin America
Crist6bal Kay 9
Chapter 2 Disentangling the Performance of Latin
American Agriculture, 1980-1992
Raul Hopkins 45
Chapter 3 Macroeconomic Adjustment and Latin
American Agriculture since 1980
John Weeks 61
Chapter 4 The Environment and Structural Adjustment:
Lessons for Policy Intervention in the 1990s
Michael Redclift 93
Chapter 5 Argentine Agriculture and Economic Reform
in the 1990s
Hector Maletta 111
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Chapter 6 Structural Adjustment and Agricultural
Policies: The Brazilian Experience
since the 1980s
Antonio Marcio Buainain and
Gervasio de Castro Rezende 149
Chapter 7 Structural Adjustment and Agricultural
Performance: The Chilean Case
Cristhin Palma Arancibia 177
Chapter 8 Adjusting to Reality: The Impact of
Structural Adjustment on Honduran Agriculture
Andy Thorpe 205
Chapter 9 The Impact of Structural Adjustment Policies
on the Performance of Agriculture: The Case
of Jamaica
Ranjit H. Singh 229
Chapter 10 Conclusions
John Weeks 259
Bibliography 265
Index 289
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Acknowledgement is due to the United Nations Food and Agriculture
Organisation (FAO) for funding the conference, held at the Institute of
Latin American Studies, University of London, on which this book is
based.
The editor would also like to thank Tim Girven for his work on the
index, Tony Bell for his help with the editing of the book, and Alison
Loader de Rojo for preparing the text.
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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Antonio Marcio Buainain is Assistant Professor of Economics at the
University of Campinas (UNICAMP), in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and an
economist at the Latin American and the Caribbean Group, Policy
Analysis Division, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation.
Gervasio de Castro Rezende is Professor at the Universidad Federal
Fluminense (UFF), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Economist at the
Instituto de Pesquisa Economica Aplicada (IPEA), Rio de Janeiro. He
is the author of several books and articles on Brazilian agriculture.
Raul Hopkins, Department of Economics of Queen Mary and Westfield
College, University of London, has been a consultant to various interna
tional organisations on the problems of agricultural development in
Latin American countries.
Cristobal Kay is at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague and was
formerly a lecturer at the Institute of Latin American Studies, Universi
ty of Glasgow.
Hector Maletta was previously Lecturer in Economics at the University
of Buenos Aires and at the University of Lima, Peru. He is an active
consultant to a number of international organisations on problems of
agricultural development in several Latin American countries.
Cristian Palma Arancibia is an agricultural engineer currently working
as Advisor to the Minister of Finance, Chile.
Michael Redclift is Professor of Rural Sociology at Wye College,
University of London and the author of numerous books on agriculture
and the environment in Latin America.
Ranjit Singh is Professor of Agricultural Economics at the University
of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad.
Andy Thorpe is a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the
University of Portsmouth and was formerly visiting Professor of
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Agricultural Economics in the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de
Honduras.
John Weeks is Professor of Development Economics and Director of the
Centre for Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African
Studies. He is author of several books on Latin America and has
worked in Central America and Peru.
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