Isolation and agricultural productivity

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Factors influencing the intensity of market participation by smallholder farmers: A case study of rural and peri-urban areas of Kenya (2009, background): “This leads to a shift from production of profitable but highly perishable commodities such as fruits and vegetables to relatively storable low-value cereals (Stifel & Minten, 2008).”
Spatial integration at multiple scales: rice markets in Madagascar (2009, unknown): “Consistent with previous studies showing a strong link between isolation and poverty in Madagascar (Razafindravonona et al. 2001, Stifel and Minten 2008), the strong and statistically significant negative effect of income on the likelihood of falling into regime 2 or 3 suggests that poorer communes…”
On the Structural Transformation of Rural Africa (2017, background): “All-season rural road access appears a key means of overcoming spatial poverty traps, not least of which by encouraging greater market participation, input use, and agricultural specialization (Stifel and Minten 2008, Calderon 2009, Jacoby and Minten 2009, Gollin and Rogerson 2010).”