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household income and assets in Kenya. We use a survey panel dataset, which allows us to control for unobserved heterogeneity … across households, and show that the commercialization of vegetables through both market channels contributes positively to … welfare, even when addressing the issue of selection into commercialization. While the production of vegetables for the export …
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Im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz (BMELV) wurden am Thünen-Institut für Betriebswirtschaft verschiedene Analysen durchgeführt, die als Grundlage für die Ausarbeitung einer BMELV-Zukunftsstrategie Gartenbau genutzt werden sollen. Die...
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The past 30 years have seen a consistent increase in agricultural commercialization in rural Viet Nam, at the same time when rural residents have moved increasingly into non-agricultural activities. The contribution of the latter to welfare improvement and poverty reduction is well known; in...
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technology could potentially accelerate this trend. Here, we use survey data of small-scale banana producers in Kenya to … investigate the gender implications of recently established farmer groups. Traditionally, banana has been a women’s crop in Kenya …
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supermarket and traditional channel farmers. This study uses panel data from vegetable farmers in Kenya to examine the effects of …. Using these results for simple simulations suggests that wider participation of smallholders in supermarket channels could …
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heterogeneity for contracts in Kenya. In the study region, supermarkets use contracts to source for fresh vegetables directly from …
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This paper describes the participation of smallholders in commercial horticultural farming in Kenya and identifies … 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 …
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[Vorwort] Das 1. Symposium für Ökonomie im Gartenbau fand am 27. November 2013 in der Paulinerkirche in Göttingen statt. Es wurde als Kooperation der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, des Thünen- Instituts für Betriebswirtschaft und des Agrarkompetenznetzes WeGa durchgeführt. Die...
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Potato is a basic food for the Romanian consumer, and not because of the special nutritional qualities, but rather the consistency it has. Given the low level of living, in Romania it is an extremely consumed food, both in the urban environment, but especially in the rural area. Exceptional...
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rich dataset of 16 series of wholesale maize prices between 2000 and 2008 for Kenya, Tanzanian and Uganda. Distance is …
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