Commercializing Small Farms: Reducing Transaction Costs

By P. Pingali, Y. Khwaja, M. Meijer. 2005

232 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Business and International Management

1. J. Hellin
2. P. Pingali
3. B. Shiferaw
4. G. Muricho

In Economics and Econometrics

1. B. Shiferaw
2. J. Hellin
3. M. Jaleta
4. M. Meijer
5. P. Pingali
6. G. Muricho
7. C. Sage
8. M. Kassie

In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. J. Hellin
2. B. Shiferaw
3. M. Jaleta
4. B. Gebremedhin
5. D. Hoekstra
6. M. Meijer
7. P. Pingali
8. G. Muricho

Citations in the corpus

• Westernization of Asian Diets and the transformation of food systems: Implications for research and policy (2007, background): “Second, there is a greater level of exchange with new players in input and output markets, which is inevitably more costly (Pingali et al., 2005).”
• Farmer organization, collective action and market access in Meso-America: (2009, background): “…of specialized wholesalers (Berdegué et al. 2007; Shepherd 2005), contracting (Stockbridge et al. 2003; Key and CAPRI WORKING PAPER NO. 67 OCTOBER 2007 3 Runsten 1999), and the growth of private quality and safety standards as well as private enforcement of public standards (Pingali et al. 2005).”
• Smallholder commercialization: processes, determinants and impact (2009, background): “…of higher market transaction costs also limits household involvement in cash crop production by discouraging participation in food markets and prompting them to give priority to subsistence food production (Fafchamps 1992; Omamo 1998b; Key et al. 2000; Govereh and Jayne 2003; Pingali et al. 2005).”
• Improving market access and agricultural productivity growth in Africa: what role for producer organizations and collective action institutions? (2011, background): “Furthermore, smallholder producers often lack essential assets for successful cooperation such as basic education, management and entrepreneurial skills, and financial capacity (Pingali et al. 2005; Stringfellow et al. 1997).”
• Facilitating Agricultural Technology Adoption Among the Poor: The Role of Service Delivery Through Mobile Phones (2012, unknown): “Market participation may also be constrained because larger buyers tend to favour scale and may be unwilling to pay the transaction costs associated with sourcing from a large number of small dispersed farms (Pingali et al. 2005).”