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Smallholders, market failures, and agricultural production: evidence from India
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2020
smallholders but am unable to do so for non-smallholders. This leads to important differences in production behavior: smallholders … reallocate labor across activities less in response to intra-seasonal crop price changes than do non-smallholders. A … counterfactual exercise indicates smallholders could increase revenue by almost nine percent if they were to reallocate labor …
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Are young maize and rice farmers' profit efficient? : a gender differential analysis
Fani, Djomo Choumbou Raoul; Ukpe, Udeme Henrietta; … - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-18
The recent trend of development policy makes emphasis on gender disparity in performance, especially in the agricultural sector whereby women partake and play a crucial role and their contribution to the sector cannot be overemphasized. However, the contention is whether such disparity in...
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Is the facilitation of sustainable market access achievable? : design and implementationlessons from Armenia
Gow, Hamish R.; Shanoyan, Aleksan - 2010
Over the past three decades the globalization in agri-food sector has been accompanied by a dramatic restructuring, liberalization and privatization of markets often with serious adverse consequences for small farmers in developing and transition countries. Consequently, governments and the...
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Contribution of information and communication technology in improving access to market information among smallholder farmers : the case study of Kilosa District
Njelekela, C.; Sanga, C. - In: The international journal of management science and … (2015) 17, pp. 56-71
This study investigates the contribution of information and communication technology in improving access to market information among smallholder farmers. The study was conducted at Kilosa District. The representative sample involved 50 smallholder farmers from two villages. A structured...
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Intermediaries, transport costs and interlinked transactions
Lefèvre, Mélanie; Tharakan, Joe - 2013
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Linking smallholders to markets : determinants and impacts of farmer collective action in Kenya
Fischer, Elisabeth; Quaim, Matin - 2010
This article investigates determinants and impacts of cooperative organization, using the example of smallholder banana farmers in Kenya. Farmer groups are inclusive of the poor, although wealthier households are more likely to join. Employing propensity score matching, we find positive income...
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Linking smallholder farmers to commercial markets : evidence from nongovernmental organization training in Nicaragua
Ebata, Ayako; Hernandez, Manuel A. - 2016
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Mobile money, agricultural marketing, and off-farm income in Uganda
Sekabira, Haruna; Qaim, Matin - 2016
Mobile money (MM) services can contribute to welfare gains in smallholder farm households. Previous research showed that one important pathway is through higher remittances received from relatives and friends. Here, the role of other impact pathways is examined, especially focusing on...
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How does market access for smallholders affect export supply? : the case of tobacco marketing in Malawi
Zant, Wouter - 2016
Transaction costs play a key role in the behaviour of smallholders in developing countries. We investigate smallholder … to measure the impact of a reduction in transaction costs on smallholders' decisions on tobacco crop area and production …
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Farmgate versus market centre sales : a multi-crop approach
Abu, Benjamin Musah; Issahaku, Haruna; Nkegbe, Paul Kwame - In: Agricultural and Food Economics : AFE 4 (2016) 21, pp. 1-16
simultaneously determine the choice of market. These imply that policies that enhance productivity of these smallholders and market …
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