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Contract farming and smallholder incentives to produce high quality: experimental evidence from the Vietnamese dairy sector

Saenger, Christoph; Qaim, Matin; Torero, Maximo; … - Institut für Agrarökonomie, Georg-August-Universität … - 2012

In emerging markets for high-value food products in developing countries, processing companies search for efficient ways to source raw material of consistent quality. One widely embraced approach is contract farming. But relatively little is known about the appropriate design of contracts,...

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Smallholder Farmers and Collective Action: What Determines the Intensity of Participation?

Fischer, Elisabeth; Qaim, Matin - Institut für Agrarökonomie, Georg-August-Universität … - 2011

emerge primarily through the exploitation of economies of scale, low participation rates in joint activities may put a … participation intensity and free-riding, using the example of banana groups in Kenya. The results suggest that family labor … availability and previous benefits that members received through the groups positively influence their intensity of participation …

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The supermarket revolution and impacts on agricultural labor markets: Empirical evidence from Kenya

Rao, Elizaphan J.O.; Qaim, Matin - Institut für Agrarökonomie, Georg-August-Universität … - 2011

. Farmer participation in supermarket channels increases the likelihood of hiring labor by 13% and overall demand for hired …

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Supply chain differentiation, contract agriculture, and farmers’ marketing preferences: the case of sweet pepper in Thailand

Schipmann, Christin; Qaim, Matin - Institut für Agrarökonomie, Georg-August-Universität … - 2011

There is an emerging body of literature analyzing how smallholder farmers in developing countries can be linked to modern supply chains. However, most of the available studies concentrate on farm and farmer characteristics, failing to capture details of institutional arrangements between farmers...

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Impacts of supermarkets on farm household nutrition in Kenya

Chege, Christine G. K.; Andersson, Camilla I.M.; Qaim, Matin - Institut für Agrarökonomie, Georg-August-Universität … - 2014

participation in supermarket channels has sizeable positive effects: calorie, vitamin A, iron, and zinc consumption are all … impacts on dietary quality. The total nutrition effects of supermarket participation could be even more positive if women were …

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Nutrition Effects of the Supermarket Revolution on Urban Consumers and Smallholder Farmers in Kenya

Qaim, Matin; Andersson, Camilla I.M.; Chege, Christine G.K. - Institut für Agrarökonomie, Georg-August-Universität … - 2014

Food systems in developing countries are transforming, involving a rapid expansion of supermarkets. This supermarket revolution may affect dietary patterns and nutrition, but empirical evidence is scarce. The few existing studies have analyzed implications for food consumers and producers...

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Evaluating nutrition and health impacts of agricultural innovations

Qaim, Matin - Institut für Agrarökonomie, Georg-August-Universität … - 2014

Agricultural innovations are seen as a key avenue to improve nutrition and health in smallholder farm households. But details of these agriculture-nutrition-health linkages are not yet well understood. While there is a broad literature on the adoption of agricultural technologies, most studies...

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Sustainability standards, gender, and nutrition among smallholder farmers in Uganda

Chiputwa, Brian; Qaim, Matin - Institut für Agrarökonomie, Georg-August-Universität … - 2014

Sustainability standards are gaining in importance in global markets for high-value foods. While previous research has shown that participating farmers in developing countries may benefit through income gains, nutrition impacts have hardly been analysed. We use survey data from smallholder...

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Tradeoffs and Complementarities in the Adoption of Improved Seeds, Fertilizer, and Natural Resource Management Technologies in Kenya

Wainaina, Priscilla; Tongruksawattana, Songporne; Qaim, … - Institut für Agrarökonomie, Georg-August-Universität … - 2014

There is widespread consensus that agricultural technology has an important role to play for poverty reduction and sustainable development. There is less consensus, however, about the types of technologies that are best suited for smallholder farmers in Africa. While some consider natural...

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Social networks and farmer exposure to improved crop varieties in Tanzania

Muange, Elijah N.; Schwarze, Stefan; Qaim, Matin - Institut für Agrarökonomie, Georg-August-Universität … - 2014

In Sub-Sahara Africa, adoption rates of improved crop varieties remain relatively low, which is partly due to farmers’ limited access to information. In smallholder settings, information often spreads through informal networks. Better understanding of such networks could potentially help to...

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