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[2] Amanor K S, Denkabe A and Wellard K. . 1993. . “‘Ghana Country Overview’. ”. In Non‐Governmental Organizations and the State in Africa: Rethinking Roles in Sustainable Agricultural Development . , Edited by: Wellard K and Copestake J G. . p. 183––194. . London and New York for ODI : : Routledge. .

[3] Amara H A and Founou‐Tchuigoua B. , eds. 1990. . African Agriculture The Critical Choices . , London : : Zed Books. .

[4] Arhin K, Hesp P and van der Laan L. , eds. 1985. . Marketing Boards in Tropical Africa . , London : : KPI. .

[5] Atampugre N. . 1997. . ‘Aid, NGOs and Grassroots Development: Northern Burkina Faso’. . Review of African Political Economy . , Vol. 71:: 57––73. .

[6] Bates R H. . 1981. . Markets and States in Tropical Africa: The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies . , Berkeley : : University of California Press. .

[7] Bauer P T. . 1963. . West African Trade: A Study of Competition, Oligopoly, Monopoly in a Changing Economy . , London : : Routledge and Kegan Paul. .

[8] Bebbington A and Farrington J. . 1993. . ‘Governments, NGOs and Agricultural Development: Perspectives on Changing Inter‐Organisational Relationships’. . The Journal of Development Studies . , Vol. 29((2)): 199––219. .

[9] Berman B. . 1984. . ‘Structure and Process in the Bureaucratic States of Colonial Africa’. . Development and Change . , Vol. 15:: 161––202. .

[10] Berry S S. . 1997. . Tomatoes, Land and Hearsay: Property and History in Asante in the Time of Structural Adjustment’. . World Development . , Vol. 25((8)): 1225––1241. .

[11] 1993a. . No Condition is Permanent: The Social Dynamics of Agrarian Change in Sub‐Saharan Africa . , Madison , Wisconsin : : The University of Madison Press. .

[12] Callaghy T M and Ravenhill J. , eds. 1993b. . “’Coping with Confusion: African Farmers’ Responses to Economic Instability in the 1970s and 1980s’. ”. In Hemmed In: Responses to Africa's Economic Decline . , p. 248––278. . New York : : Columbia University Press. .

[13] Biggs S and Farrington J. . 1991. . Agricultural Research and the Rural Poor: A Review of Social Science Analysis . , Ottawa : : International Development and Research Council. .

[14] Bourenane N and Mkandawire T. , eds. 1987. . The State and Agriculture in Africa . , London : : CODESRIA. .

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[16] 1989. . ‘The Politics of Government‐NGO Relations in Africa’. . World Development . , Vol. 17((4)): 569––587. .

[17] Brautigam D. . 1994. . “‘State, NGOs and International Aid in The Gambia’. ”. Edited by: Sandberg E. . p. 59––82. .

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