Contribution
by Ibrahim Coulibaly on the volatility of agricultural prices,
CFS,
19 October 2011
Around 40 years
ago,
when I was young, we did not speak of volatility. I still
remember
how our government gave our parents ploughs, plough oxen, and
fertilizer on credit. At the time, there was a public service,
the
OPAM, that bought food products from farming families at
prices that
were known beforehand.
Around 30 years
ago,
I was in secondary school and we were told that it was better
to
produce for external markets. We began hearing the phrase
“deterioration of the terms of exchange” in the discourse of
our
male politicians.