Smallholder market participation under transactions costs: Maize supply and fertilizer demand in Kenya

By A. Alene, V. Manyong, G. Omanya, H. Mignouna, M. Bokanga, G. Odhiambo. 2008

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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Citations in the corpus

• Factors influencing household food security among smallholder farmers in the Mudzi district of Zimbabwe (2014, background): “Access to market information is the main factor inducing market participation (Alene et al., 2008).”
• Determinants of smallholder farmers' participation in banana markets in Central Africa: the role of transaction costs (2010, methodology): “This result conforms to findings of Alene et al (2008) in the Kenyan maize markets where farmers located far from the market reduce transacted quantities by a substantial 62%.”
• Are middlemen facilitators or barriers to improve smallholders' welfare in rural economies? Empirical evidence from Ethiopia (2016, background): “Most of the empirical literature on smallholders' channel choice emphasizes the effect of transaction costs and socioeconomic factors such as risk preferences, asset holdings, and geography (Alene et al., 2008; Barrett, 2008; Fischer and Qaim, 2012).”
• MARKET PARTICIPATION DECISION OF SMALLHOLDER FARMERS AND ITS DETERMINANTS IN BANGLADESH (2015, background): “Public assets variables have also been found to have positive relationship with market participation especially with respect to access to credit and insurance (Cadot et al., 2006; Stephens, Barrett, 2011) and input use and access to extension services (Alene et al., 2008).”
• Livestock and Women’s Livelihoods (2014, background): “Studies from cropping systems show that, controlling for access to resource such as land and credit, productivity levels are similar between men and women (Smale and Heisey 1994; Njuki 2001; Alene et al. 2008).”
• Adoption and Dissemination Pathways for Climate-Smart Agriculture Technologies and Practices for Climate-Resilient Livelihoods in Lushoto, Northeast Tanzania (2017, background): “Studies have shown that belonging to a rural social or marketing group enhances social and financial capital allowing trust, idea, and information exchange [56,57].”
• Market participation of smallholder maize farmers in the upper west region of Ghana (2014, background): “In general, many evidences found strong positive associations between market participation and low levels of transactions costs especially transport costs and information costs (Alene et al., 2008; Ouma et al., 2010).”
• The Contribution of Agricultural Sector on Economic Growth of Nigeria (2017, background): “According to Alene et al. (2005) Nigeria is endowed with a large deposit of agricultural resources, arable land for the cultivation of crops and rearing of animals. In the 1960s and 1970s the agricultural sector constituted over 65% of total export. The Nigerian agricultural sector was renowned for ”
• Mobile Phones and Farmers’ Marketing Decisions in Ethiopia (2015, background): “found that access to mobile phone did not significantly improve farmers’ market participation and spatial arbitrage (Alene et al., 2008; Fafchamps & Minten, 2012; Muto & Yamano, 2009).”
• Commercialization of smallholder agriculture in Ghana: A Tobit regression analysis (2012, background): “This finding is consistent with the findings by Alene et al. (2008) and Omiti et al.”
• Determinants of Market Participation among Small-Scale Pineapple Farmers in Kericho County, Kenya (2014, background): “This is in line with Astewel, (2010) who illustrate that if paddy producer gets educated, the amount of paddy supplied to the market increases, this suggests that higher level of education provides a greater opportunity for the farmers to participate in pineapple market.”