Chapter 8

Cocoa and cotton commodity chains in West Africa:

Policy and institutional roles for smallholder market participation

Philip ABBOTT 1

(^1) Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University. This paper was commissioned by FAO Trade and
Markets Division and was presented to the FAO Workshop on “Institutional innovations and policy interventions in
support of smallholder market participation,” Rome, June 3– 4, 2010. The paper synthesizes and extends on earlier
work funded by IITA, USAID and the World Bank.