Markets and improved market access are critical for improving urban incomes, particularly in Africa. Despite this, participation of farmers in domestic and regional markets in southwest Nigeria remains low due to a range of constraints. One of the limiting constraints faced by farmers is linked...

This study utilize two-wave household level panel data spanning 5 years on smallholder vegetable producers in Central and Eastern Kenya to assess the effects of commercialization of horticulture on two major poverty outcomes: household income and asset holdings. Methods that exploit panel nature...

This paper studies the implications of farm–non-farm population shifts for household poverty outcomes in Cameroon. It uses total real expenditure per adult equivalent as the wellbeing indicator, as well as the 1996, 2001 and 2007 Cameroon household consumption surveys carried out by the...