Smallholder market participation: Concepts and evidence from eastern and southern Africa

By Christopher B. Barrett. 2008

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Food value chain transformations in developing countries: Selected hypotheses on nutritional implications (2013, background): “This is a critical consideration because, as explained earlier, most smallholder farmers and traders in rural areas are net food buyers (Barrett, 2008).”
Determinants of cereal market participation by sub-Saharan Africa smallholder farmer (2011, background): “One sound theoretical model explaining the household’s market participation behaviour is provided by Barret (2008).”
Linking Smallholders to Markets: Determinants and Impacts of Farmer Collective Action in Kenya (2012, background): “Often living in remote areas with poor infrastructure, they face high transaction costs that significantly reduce their incentives for market participation (Barrett, 2008; Key, Sadoulet, & de Janvry, 2000; Omamo, 1998).”
Productivity, credit, risk, and the demand for weather index insurance in smallholder agriculture in Ethiopia (2013, background): “Many studies have found that small farmers in developing countries are credit constrained, and as a consequence use few modern purchased inputs (for surveys of the extensive literature on rural credit markets and/or their absence in developing countries see Besley [1994] and Conning and Udry [2007] ”
Smallholder integration in changing food markets (2013, background): “With this focus in mind, and drawing on Barrett (2010), smallholder heterogeneity can be considered along three dimensions: (i) the smallholder household’s access to, and the productivity of, assets, including natural resources, labour, and capital, vis-à-vis their subsistence needs will determine b”
Trade-offs between environment and livelihoods: Bridging the global land use and food security discussions (2017, unknown): “Very small farms appear hindered in accessing commercial supply chains due to a lack of entrepreneurial capacities and assets for risk-taking behaviors, and to the logistics of marketing (Barrett 2008, Neven et al. 2009, Collier and Dercon 2014).”
Smallholder Farmers’ Decision and Level of Participation in the Potato Market in Uganda (2014, background): “[47] added that non-farm incomes of rural households may be derived from casual labour hire, wage employment, private business activity (self-employed) or remittances [24] [48] in support of the importance of off farm income to the smallholders, contended that in the presence of working capital cons”
Linking Smallholder Farmers to Markets and the Implications for Extension and Advisory Services (2014, background): “The key finding is that the less endowed smallholder farmers across the world are under increasing pressure to modernize and improve their market linkage if they are to rise above a subsistence farming system and make economic progress (Barrett, 2008; Jayne et al., 2010; Sitko and Jayne, 2012; Weber”
Improving market access and agricultural productivity growth in Africa: what role for producer organizations and collective action institutions? (2011, background): “In summary, producer organizations can play a key role in helping to integrate disfranchised small producers into the marketing systems that would enhance access to technologies and services and create opportunities to increase agricultural productivity and food security for smallholder farmers (Bar”