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A Diagnostic Perspective Assessment of the Production and Marketing System for Mangoes in the Eastern Caribbean

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Alan Hrapsky (Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University)
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Harold Riley

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The objective of this research was to provide USAID with a diagnostic-prescriptive assessment of the mango commodity system that would be useful in the design and management of USAID’s project portfolio. A secondary objective was to demonstrate how a market-guided food systems approach could be applied to a particular commodity, thus facilitating coordination of vertical stages in the agricultural production and marketing system. The food systems approach begins with identification of consumer requirements in terms of product specifications and volume flows, examines the production changes necessary to achieve these requirements, then systematically diagnoses constraints at each stage in the production/marketing chain, and prescribes realistic actions for their removal.

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Paper provided by Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University in its series International Development Working Papers with number 23.

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Date of creation: 1985
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Keywords: food security; food policy; marketing systems;

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Q13 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Markets and Marketing; Cooperatives; Agribusiness

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