The political economy of food price policy in Senegal
Since independence, Senegal has been highly reliant on international markets to meet its food needs, this tendency has only increased with rapid levels of urbanization in recent decades. Poor domestic cereal harvests prior to 2007 exacerbated this import-dependence during a time of high global food...
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2014
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| description | Since independence, Senegal has been highly reliant on international markets to meet its food needs, this tendency has only increased with rapid levels of urbanization in recent decades. Poor domestic cereal harvests prior to 2007 exacerbated this import-dependence during a time of high global food prices, resulting in the cost of rice sky-rocketing. Government response was to suspend customs duties and value added taxes, providing consumer subsidies and other modes of social protection, and launching a high-profile agricultural initiative. This chapter argues that the policies which emerged reflected the confluence of a strong, diverse civil society placing disparate pressures on a government increasingly centralized around the personality and populist impulses of its former president. Senegal remains vulnerable to future food price crises, learning from these policy mistakes should be a key priority for government. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1504142024-10-25T08:05:55Z The political economy of food price policy in Senegal Resnick, Danielle price policies food policies agricultural policies rural development food prices Since independence, Senegal has been highly reliant on international markets to meet its food needs, this tendency has only increased with rapid levels of urbanization in recent decades. Poor domestic cereal harvests prior to 2007 exacerbated this import-dependence during a time of high global food prices, resulting in the cost of rice sky-rocketing. Government response was to suspend customs duties and value added taxes, providing consumer subsidies and other modes of social protection, and launching a high-profile agricultural initiative. This chapter argues that the policies which emerged reflected the confluence of a strong, diverse civil society placing disparate pressures on a government increasingly centralized around the personality and populist impulses of its former president. Senegal remains vulnerable to future food price crises, learning from these policy mistakes should be a key priority for government. 2014 2024-08-01T02:51:45Z 2024-08-01T02:51:45Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150414 en Open Access Oxford University Press Resnick, Danielle. 2014. The political economy of food price policy in Senegal. In Food price policy in an era of market instability: A political economy analysis, ed. Per Pinstrup-Andersen. Part V: The political economy of food price policy in low and middle-income countries heavily dependent on food import. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Chapter 14. Pp. 296-318. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198718574.003.0014 |
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| title | The political economy of food price policy in Senegal |
| title_full | The political economy of food price policy in Senegal |
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| title_short | The political economy of food price policy in Senegal |
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| topic | price policies food policies agricultural policies rural development food prices |
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