The role of the public and private sectors in commercializing small farms and reducing transaction costs.

Pingali, Prabhu; Khwaja, Yasmeen; Meijer, Madelon; Swinnen, Johan

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“…Yet, there are also new challenges. Food quality and safety can be associated with informational uncertainties and high transaction costs, which could potentially limit participation possibilities for resource-poor farmers (Balsevich et al 2003;Okello and Swinton 2007;Pingali, Khwaja, and Meijer 2007). Recent studies have analyzed the determinants of farmer participation in modern supply chains, including supermarket and export channels, and impacts on farm and household incomes (Hernández, Reardon, and Berdegué 2007;Maertens and Swinnen 2009;Rao and Qaim 2011).…”

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“…In addition to market liberalization, these changes are largely motivated by rapid urbanization and rising living standards. The growing number of urban, middle-class consumers has preferences for higher levels of food quality, food safety, diversity, and convenience (Mergenthaler, Weinberger, and Qaim 2009;Pingali, Khwaja, and Meijer 2007). To meet these emerging preference structures, modern supply chains often adopt increased vertical coordination, with super-and hypermarkets rapidly gaining importance (Boselie, Henson, and Weatherspoon 2003;Neven and Reardon 2004;Reardon et al 2003).…”

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Farmer Participation in Supermarket Channels, Production Technology, and Efficiency: The Case of Vegetables in Kenya

Rao

Brümmer

Qaim

2012

American J Agri Economics

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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 Acknowledgements:This research was financially supported through a grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG). 1Farmer Participation in Supermarket Channels, Production Technology, and Efficiency:The Case of Vegetables in Kenya AbstractSupermarkets are gaining ground in the agri-food systems of many developing countries. While recent research has analyzed income effects in the small farm sector, impacts on productivity and efficiency have hardly been studied. We use a meta-frontier approach and combine this with propensity score matching to estimate treatment effects among vegetable farmers in Kenya.Participation in supermarket channels increases farm productivity in terms of meta-technology ratios by 45%. We also find positive and significant impacts on technical efficiency and scale efficiency. Supermarket expansion therefore presents opportunities for agricultural growth in the small farm sector, which is crucial for poverty reduction in Africa.

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Farmer Participation in Supermarket Channels, Production Technology, and Efficiency: The Case of Vegetables in Kenya

Rao

Brümmer

Qaim

2012

American J Agri Economics

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“…There is a growing body of literature analyzing such aspects in various developing countries (e.g., Neven and Reardon, 2004;Pingali et al, 2007;Reardon et al, 2009). Different studies have examined determinants of farmer participation in supermarket channels (Hernandez et al, 2007;Moustier et al, 2010;Neven et al, 2009).…”

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Supermarkets, Farm Household Income, and Poverty: Insights from Kenya

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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. participants and non-participants in supermarket channels, wider household welfare effects have hardly been analyzed. Moreover, structural differences between the two groups have been ignored. We address these issues by using endogenous switching regression and building on a survey of vegetable farmers in Kenya. Participation in supermarket channels is associated with a 50% gain in average household income, leading to significant poverty reduction. To realize these benefits on a larger scale will require institutional and policy support. Terms of use: Documents in

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“…Stringent food safety and traceability requirements trigger a new set of transaction costs for small-scale producers without adequate capital investment and public infrastructure (Pingali, Khwaja, and Meijer 2007;McCullough, Pingali, and Stamoulis 2008). As a result, one of the main challenges in designing food traceability systems-and ensuring smallholder participation-is the development of fair, adequate, and broad food safety standards.…”

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The role of the public and private sectors in commercializing small farms and reducing transaction costs.

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Farmer Participation in Supermarket Channels, Production Technology, and Efficiency: The Case of Vegetables in Kenya

Farmer Participation in Supermarket Channels, Production Technology, and Efficiency: The Case of Vegetables in Kenya

Supermarkets, Farm Household Income, and Poverty: Insights from Kenya

Using ICT for Remote Sensing, Crowdsourcing, and Big Data to Unlock the Potential of Agricultural Data

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