Rural infrastructure, transactions costs and market participation in Kenya

By M. Renkow, Daniel G. Hallstrom, D. Karanja. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research, Soil Science

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Road to Specialization in Agricultural Production: Evidence from Rural China (2012, unknown): “First, with lower transportation costs, farmers may shift their agricultural production from an autarky-based self-sufficient subsistence farming to a more market-oriented specialized production (Limao and Venables 2001; Renkow et al. 2003). Yang and Ng (1993) develop a theoretical model, showing th”
Smallholder commercialization: processes, determinants and impact (2009, background): “Using empirical evidence, Renkow et al. (2004) showed that fixed transaction costs in maize-producing semi-subsistence households is one of the major deterrents to market participation.”
Food value chain transformations in developing countries: Selected hypotheses on nutritional implications (2013, background): “Renkow et al. (2004), for example, estimated that lack of distribution infrastructure results in additional marketing costs to smallholder farmers, equivalent to about a 15 percent tax on sales to consumers.”
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).”
Smallholder market participation: Concepts and evidence from eastern and southern Africa (2008, background): “The key features of the model are that market access is not uniform because households may face different transactions costs to market participation (Omamo, 1998a,b; Key et al., 2000; Renkow et al., 2004) and that geographic markets may likewise be differentially integrated into the global economy b”
Incomplete Credit Markets and Commodity Marketing Behaviour (2011, methodology): “Further, Saha and Stroud (1994) and Park (2006) have both shown that such seasonal price movements should also lead to high levels of storage demand at harvest time as well.”
Agriculture, Roads, and Economic Development in Uganda (2010, background): “This includes theoretical papers along with a number of recent policy and empirical papers, such as Platteau (1996), Limão and Venables (1999), Fan and Hazell (2001), Fan and Chan-Kang (2004), Torero and Chowdhury (2004), Renkow et al. (2004), Zhang and Fan (2004),”