[PDF] Agricultural Finance In The Sudan eBook

Author : Ahmed S. Bamakhramah
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Page : 3 pages
File Size : 49,90 MB
Release : 2018
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To write a book on the experience of agricultural finance in a developing country, including problems and challenges, is a casual treatise in development finance in general and agricultural finance in particular. To study the experience of agricultural finance in Sudan within the period 1991-2001 is another story. The main reason behind this significance is that this period witnessed the introduction of Islamic finance in Sudan. Agriculture, having been contributing between 29% and 50% to gross domestic product or an average annual share of 48% during this period, merits special interest in how successful were the Islamic modes of finance in such a vital sector. Moreover, it is worth researching into whether the level of achievement of the financial institutions, manifested mainly in financial viability and self-sustainability, was due to the nature of Islamic financing modes or due to structural, institutional and organizational factors inherent in the Sudanese financial sector. The general conclusion of the book in this regard is that a mixture of all such factors contributed to the relatively poor performance of agricultural financing schemes during the studied period.

Author : Resnick, Danielle
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 34,63 MB
Release : 2021-10-27
Category : Political Science
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Wheat flour and bread have played a central role in Sudan’s political economy throughout the country’s post-independence history. In 2019, increasing bread prices precipitated the protests that ousted the government of Omar al-Bashir. How has Sudan’s recent political transition and economic circumstances impacted distortions within the wheat value chain? What are the policy preferences of relevant stakeholders for improving the affordability of wheat products and the productivity of domestic wheat farmers? This paper addresses these questions by drawing on key informant interviews in Sudan and utilizing a political settlements approach, which captures the underlying distribution of power among elites and citizens. The post-revolution political settlement contains a much broader distribution of power shared between a civilian alliance movement and the military, each of which has distinct interests in the wheat value chain. The paper elucidates the preferences of different stakeholders to address policy distortions and discusses bottlenecks that need to be overcome for those options to be feasible. In doing so, the analysis reveals that, while the policy of subsidizing bread remains contentious, there are broader coalitions for interventions related to regulatory and monitoring reforms, improvements in domestic wheat procurement, enhanced agricultural investments, and targeted cash transfers to cushion subsidy reductions.

Author : D'Silva, Brian
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 23,42 MB
Release : 2023-04-05
Category : Political Science
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This note reviews Sudan’s contemporary political landscape and how it affects the viability of much needed investments central to the country’s agricultural transformation. It specifically focuses on livestock and horticulture value chains in Greater Khartoum and natural resource management in the Blue Nile and South Kordofan States. Successive governments have largely neglected the agriculture sector even though it is the largest employment sector in Sudan and contributes about 56 percent to total exports (CBoS, 2020). Moreover, the sector has a high potential for tackling the twin challenges of food insecurity and improving the livelihoods of smallholder farmers. These two are critical priorities given high food price inflation and restricted access to agricultural inputs exacerbated by the Ukraine war. An enabling political and governance environment is essential for adopting and implementing the policies required for agricultural transformation, especially in fragile states like Sudan. This Political Economy Assessment (PEA) exercise has highlighted that the military and paramilitary structures occupy a large market share of the State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), private company partnerships, and land leases to foreign companies in the agriculture sector. Thus, this study forms a basis for deeper PEA and an opportunity for the exploration of the role of intermediaries and the rent seeking activities at the subsequent levels of agricultural value chains, and the extent to which they are linked to both formal and informal economic structures. We have highlighted how smallholder farmers are largely disadvantaged given the current distribution of economic rents.

Author : Abbas Abdelkarim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 18,46 MB
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1135178852

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The authors propose that the Gezira scheme has played a paradoxical role in the capitalist transformation of the Sudan - reinforcing some non-capitalist production relations while at the same time acting as an engine for the peripheral capitalist development.