Strategies to Promote Market-Oriented Smallholder Agriculture in Developing Countries: A Case of Kenya

Omiti, John M.; Otieno, David Jakinda; McCullough, Ellen; Nyanamba, Timothy O.

doi:10.22004/ag.econ.52105

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Smallholder Participation in the Commercialisation of Vegetables: Evidence from Kenyan Panel Data

Muriithi

Matz

2014

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractThis paper describes the participation of smallholders in commercial horticultural farming in Kenya and identifies constraints and critical factors that influence their decision to participate in this industry by selling their produce. The study employs panel survey data on smallholder producers of both international (export) and domestic market vegetables and controls for unobserved heterogeneity across farmers. We find that participation of smallholders in both the domestic and export vegetable markets declined and that this trend is associated with weather risks, high costs of inputs and unskilled labour, and erratic vegetable prices, especially in the international market. Different factors are at play in determining a household's market choice for the commercialisation of vegetables: credit is important only when vegetables are (also) exported, livestock ownership is negatively related to production for the domestic market, and distance to the nearest market town positively related to all pathways of commercialisation, for example.

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Smallholder Participation in the Commercialisation of Vegetables: Evidence from Kenyan Panel Data

Muriithi

Matz

2014

SSRN Journal

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Market Participation Behaviour of Smallholder Dairy Farmers in Uttarakhand: A Disaggregated Analysis

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Saxena³

2012

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Does commercialization of smallholder horticulture reduce rural poverty? Evidence based on household panel data from Kenya

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2013

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Strategies to Promote Market-Oriented Smallholder Agriculture in Developing Countries: A Case of Kenya

Cited by 6 publications

References 3 publications

Smallholder Participation in the Commercialisation of Vegetables: Evidence from Kenyan Panel Data

Smallholder Participation in the Commercialisation of Vegetables: Evidence from Kenyan Panel Data

Market Participation Behaviour of Smallholder Dairy Farmers in Uttarakhand: A Disaggregated Analysis

Does commercialization of smallholder horticulture reduce rural poverty? Evidence based on household panel data from Kenya

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