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Testing Market Integration for Fresh Pineapples in Kenya

Onyuma, Samuel O.; Icart, Eric; Owuor, George - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

efficiency in the marketing system. …

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Analysis of the Structure and Performance of the Beans Marketing System in Nairobi

Odhiambo, Mark O.; Oluoch-Kosura, Willis; Kibiego, … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

price fluctuations and inadequate information on production, marketing and consumption. These problems are more acute in … urban areas. This paper analyzes the structure and performance of the beans marketing system in Nairobi metropolitan area … to analyze the marketing system by applying descriptive statistics, concentration ratios and co-integration models. The …

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Access to Dynamic Markets for Small Commercial Farmers: The Case of Potato Production in the Peruvian Andes

Escobal D'Angelo, Javier; Torero, Maximo - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

The study has evaluated which are the most relevant factors that determine that a small farmer switch marketing …

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Measuring Market Integration in Mozambican Maize Markets: A Threshold Vector Error Correction Approach

Alemu, Zerihun Gudeta; Biacuana, G.R. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

The primary objective of this research was to measure the extent of market integration between major surplus and deficit maize markets in Mozambique namely, Chimoio-Maputo, Chimoio-Beira, Ribaue-Nampula, and Mocuba-Nampula. To achieve this objective, Threshold Vector Autoregressive models were...

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Cointegration and Market Integration: An Application to the Potato Markets in Rural West Bengal, India

Basu, Jyotish Prakash - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

The paper attempts to examine the market integration with the help of cointegration test on the prices of potato of Hooghly district in West Bengal. The analysis has been made at two levels, namely at the level of wholesale markets and at the retail markets. The cointegration test by Johansen...

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The Effects of Market Reform on Maize Marketing Margins in South Africa: An Empirical Study

Traub, Lulama Ndibongo; Jayne, Thomas S. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

This paper determines the effect of market reform and price decontrol on the size of maize milling/retail margins in South Africa. Regression models of monthly milling/retail margins are run over the period May 1976 to September 2003. To assess the robustness of our findings, we estimate several...

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Producing and Procuring Horticultural Crops with Chinese Characteristics: Why Small Farmers Are Thriving and Supermarkets Are Absent in Rural China

Wang, Honglin; Dong, Xiaoxia; Huang, Jikun; Rozelle, Scott - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

The supermarket revolution has arrived in China and is spreading as fast as or faster than anywhere in the world. As the demand for vegetables, fruit, nuts and other high valued products have risen, urban retailers are finding new venues seized on niche and today have over $55 billion in sales,...

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Rationalization and Harmonization of Seed Policies and Regulations in Eastern and Central Africa: Effecting Policy Change through Private Public Partnerships

Minde, Isaac J.; Waithaka, Michael M. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

Cereal grains are important staple foods in Africa but yields are still too low at 1.5 tons per ha for maize while compared with a global average of 4.5 tons per ha. This can be partly attributed to limited development of commercial seed markets, low use of improved seeds, small and highly...

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Generating Global Crop Distribution Maps: From Census to Grid

You, Liangzhi; Wood, Stanley; Wood-Sichra, Ulrike - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

In order to evaluate food security, technology potential and the environmental impacts of production in a strategic and regional context, it is critical to have reliable information on the spatial distribution and coincidence of people, agricultural production, and environmental services. This...

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Does Land Use Patterns Matter for Bt-Maize: The Case of Maize Farming System in Kenya

Muhammad, Lutta; Owuor, George; De Groote, Hugo; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006

Population pressures and the need to optimize the use of limited available land has led to increasing cropping affluence levels within the maize agro-ecologies in Kenya, and a shift from large to smallholder intensification and multiple cropping patterns. Using a geographic information system,...

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