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DEVELOPMENT IN PRACTICE
Volume 21, Issue 4-5, Pages 590-603Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2011.562489
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Labour and livelihoods; Sub-Saharan Africa
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This article contrasts the impacts of the global food-price crisis in 2007-08 on three types of farmer in Mali. In the Niger delta, where the government undertook an 'emergency' initiative, farmers organised to market their rice collectively, gaining a stronger position vis-a-vis merchants and the state. Vertically integrated into an export value chain, cotton farmers have suffered from stagnating yields, slow organisational reform, and rising input-to-output ratios over the past decade. Consuming little rice, growing local landraces with few inputs, and insulated from the world market by their isolation, sorghum-millet farmers in the drylands were affected by poor rainfall.
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