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Determinants of the competitiveness of smallholder African indigenous vegetable farmers in high-value agro-food chains in Kenya : a multivariate probit regression analysis

Ngenoh, Evans; Kurgat, Barnabas Kiplagat; Bett, Hillary … - In: Agricultural and Food Economics : AFE 7 (2019) 2, pp. 1-17

Smallholder farmers are excluded from efficient and effective participation in high-value agro-food market chains due … and efficient participation in high-value agro-food market chains. In particular, the study aims at determining the main … of African indigenous vegetables (AIVs) to access pillars of competitiveness in high-value market chains (HVMCs). For …

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Potential determinants of profits and market efficiency of potato market chains in Uganda

Kyomugisha, Harriet; Mugisha, Johnny; Sebatta, Christopher - In: Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies 7 (2017) 1, pp. 52-68

major potato market chains and all were profitable and efficient. The farmer-buyer node was the most efficient (efficiencies …

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CONSUMER PREFERENCES FOR QUALITY CHARACTERISTICS ALONG THE COWPEA VALUE CHAIN IN NIGERIA, GHANA AND MALI

Mishili, Fulgence Joseph; Fulton, Joan; Jamal, Mustafa; … - Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University - 2007

The production and trade of cowpea (Vigna Uniculata), called “blackeyed peas” in the US, are a growing business for farmers and merchants serving the rapidly expanding urban areas of West and Central Africa. Cowpea fits the needs of the urban poor. It is an inexpensive source of protein that...

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Price Volatility Spillover in Agricultural Markets: An Examination of U.S. Catfish Markets

Buguk, Cumhur; Hudson, Darren; Hanson, Terrill R. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 28 (2003) 01

Price volatility spillovers in the U.S. catfish supply chain are analyzed based on monthly price data from 1980 through 2000 for catfish feed, its ingredients, and farm- and wholesale-level catfish. The exponential generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (EGARCH) model was used...

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