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The marketing and the valorisation of teak (Tectona grandis L.f.) leaves were studied in southern Benin, in order to … marketing system. Traders provided information on their functions in the marketing system, the costs borne, and their revenues …. In the consumers’ survey, respondents provided data on the consumption forms of teak leaves. The marketing channel …
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Interlocked relationships are characterised by traders’ supply of inputs and cash to producers on credit, to be reimbursed at sale time based on a pre-defined price which is often lower than the prevailing market price. The study analyses determinants of choice of interlocking in the gum...
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Lack of access to nutritious food is an underlying and major cause of child mortality in Africa. Improving the … nutritional quality of food crops, through biofortification, would be a useful complementary strategy to other agricultural and … Technology Adoption ( IPTA) with the aim of production, value addition and marketing of QPM based products. These groups require …
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The use of modern marketing strategies to minimize risk exposure is not a widely adopted practice under maize producers … strategy at all and to convince producers to reconsider the adoption of modern marketing strategies. …
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We investigate measurement of market integration of staple food markets in developing countries. The analysis takes the … period covers two major food shortages (2001-2003 and 2005-2006) as well as the impact of the global rise in food prices in … costs of domestic maize trade in Malawi. The evidence indicates that markets are particularly well integrated during food …
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The literature on commercial transformation of smallholders makes little distinction between market orientation (production decision based on market signals) and market participation (sale of output). However, policy implications to enhance commercial transformation of subsistence agriculture...
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-to-day expenditures for food, education and human health. Cattle are more important for draft power and milk, and support subsistence … poverty, we develop an innovative approach that would first evaluate local constraints in production and marketing, and then …
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added food product industries serving national, regional and EU markets and thus worsen ESA countries’ overall terms of … trade with the EU. It is this process of trade liberalization in food and agricultural products in parallel with external …
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This study is based on data collected from 141 family-type farms in the Yatenga province in Burkina Faso. A probit approach is used to analyze the effect of perception of land degradation and other factors on the adoption of zaï and stone rows. The results of the estimation show that the...
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This paper argues that the disappointing outcomes of adjustment policies in poor rural economies, principally in sub-Saharan Africa, can be partly attributed to weaknesses in the neo-classical theory which underlies these polices and from associated failures to recognise structural changes (or...
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