-Pro poor- economic growth is widely recognized as an important means for reducing poverty in developing countries. With the majority of the world's poor living in rural areas, agricultural intensification, with higher land and labor productivity from increased integration in input and output markets, is one way to expand income and livelihood opportunities for rural people. This book uses a new institutional economics perspective to review the effects of market liberalization on service provision to smallholder farmers. In many parts of the world, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, the...