Transactions Costs and Agricultural Household Supply Response

By N. Key, E. Sadoulet, A. de Janvry. 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science

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Cassava Market Participation Decisions of Producing Households in Africa (2009, background): “Past studies suggest that the failure of many households to participate in commodity market is explained by transaction costs (5, 8, 10, 12).”
Missing markets and crop diversity: evidence from Mexico (2005, background): “The wider the price band becomes, the more likely the household will engage in subsistence production, guided by internal subjective valuations instead of by market prices (Key et al., 2000).”
Linking Smallholders to Markets: Determinants and Impacts of Farmer Collective Action in Kenya (2012, background): “Farmers face different transaction costs that stem from asymmetries in access to assets, information, services, and markets, leading to different market behavior (Barrett, 2008; Key et al., 2000).”
Rural Institutions and Producer Organizations in Imperfect Markets: Experiences from Producer Marketing Groups in Semi-Arid Eastern Kenya.Socioeconomics and Policy Working Paper Series no. 23 (2006, background): “This evidence attests to the fact that large distances can lead to incomplete markets as farmers attempt to economize on transportation costs, especially when prices do not increase significantly with distance to compensate for the added costs (Key et al. 2000).”
An Ordered Tobit Model of Market Participation: Evidence from Kenya and Ethiopia (2006, positive): “This model is essentially the dynamic generalization of the structural model presented in Key et al. (2000).”
Caste discrimination and transaction costs in the labor market: Evidence from rural North India (2009, background): “(1998) and Key et al. (2000) on corn producers’ supply responses to labor and product markets in Mexico.”
Strategies For Sustainable Land Management And Poverty Reduction In Uganda (2004, neutral): “This was expected, because in areas with better market access, farmers are likely to produce more crops for sale, hence exporting more nutrients, whereas farmers in remote areas face high transactions costs that exclude them from participation in the market (Omamo 1998; Key et al. 2000).”
Why do small-scale producers choose to produce under contract? Lessons from nontraditional vegetable exports from Zimbabwe (2005, background): “…the existing literature highlights how the response of small-scale producers to market opportunities reflects household characteristics and their economic and social circumstances (see e.g., De Janvry et al., 1991; Delgado, 1999; Holloway, Nicholson, Delgado, Staal, & Ehui, 2000; Key et al., 2000).”
Agricultural supply response and poverty in Mozambique (2002, neutral): “Previous studies (Goetz, 1992; Key, Sadoulet and de Janvry, 2000) used quantities sold of a single crop (eg kilogram of maize) as the dependent variable.”
Impact of cooperatives on smallholders' commercialization behavior: evidence from Ethiopia (2008, background): “However, in the face of imperfect markets and high transaction costs, smallholders are rarely able to exploit all the potential gains from commercialization (de Janvry et al., 1991; Goetz, 1992; Key et al., 2000).”
Soil quality and fertilizer use rates among smallholder farmers in western Kenya (2009, background): “An emerging body of literature on smallholder market participation has similarly emphasized the role of transaction costs in smallholder behavior (Bellemare and Barrett, 2006; de Janvry et al., 1991; Goetz, 1992; Key et al., 2000; Renkow et al., 2004; Staal et al., 1997; Vakis et al., 2003).”
Mainstreaming Gender Sensitivity in Cash Crop Market Supply Chains (2014, background): “This requires reliable access to these markets, and has implications on the scale and quality of production (Fafchamps 1992 and Key et al., 2000).”
A Century-Long Perspective on Agricultural Development (2010, background): “For many, autarkic behavior is a low-level equilibrium (de Janvry et al. 1991; Goetz 1992; Key et al. 2000; Bellemare and Barrett 2006).”