Structural Adjustment And The Agricultural Sector In Latin America And The Caribbean (institute Of Latin American Studies)

Annotation As a result of the regional debt crisis, most governments of Latin America in the 1980s entered into a process of profound policy change, from an import substitution oriented strategy to a focus upon export-promotion, with an emphasis upon market liberalisation. According to mainstream economic theory, the effect of this shift would be to favour agriculture. This book, with contributors from Latin America and Europe, surveys the results on agriculture of a decade of policy change, and to produce new and unexpected insights Front Matter....Pages i-xv Introduction....Pages 1-7 Rural Development and Agrarian Issues in Contemporary Latin America....Pages 9-44 Disentangling the Performance of Latin American Agriculture, 1980–1992....Pages 45-60 Macroeconomic Adjustment and Latin American Agriculture Since 1980....Pages 61-91 The Environment and Structural Adjustment: Lessons for Policy Interventions in the 1990S....Pages 93-110 Argentine Agriculture and Economic Reform in the 1990S....Pages 111-147 Structural Adjustment and Agricultural Policies: the Brazilian Experience Since the 1980s.....Pages 149-176 Structural Adjustment and Agricultural Performance: the Chilean Case....Pages 177-204 Adjusting to Reality: the Impact of Structural Adjustment on Honduran Agriculture....Pages 205-228 The Impact of Structural Adjustment Policies on the Performance of Agriculture: the Case of Jamaica....Pages 229-257 Conclusions....Pages 259-263 Back Matter....Pages 265-297 As a result of the regional debt crisis, most governments of Latin America in the 1980s entered into a process of profound policy change, from an import substitution oriented strategy to a focus upon export-promotion, with an emphasis upon market liberalisation. According to mainstream economic theory, the effect of this shift would be to favour agriculture. This book, with contributors from Latin America and Europe, surveys the results on agriculture of a decade of policy change, to produce new and unexpected insights. Two overview chapters assess the experience of the entire region, followed by case-studies of the major countries and a survey of the environmental impact of the new policy orientation.