FROM PARASTATALS TO PRIVATE TRADE,This volume focuses on some of the important issues related to agricultural marketing in developing countries of Asia and Africa. It argues on the issue of public intervention in food price stabilization and debates justification for market intervention vis-a-vis public intervention. It addresses three important questionswhy, when, and howentailing the need for developing countries to adjust their parastatal-centered policies to new conditions in agricultural marketing. By undertaking in-depth country case studies the volume concludes that: a) public agencies and policies need to change appropriately with time; b) private institutions be entrusted with functions traditionally performed by parastatals or other government agencies