Senegalese consumers prefer milk-based dairy products that are local and fresh to ones produced with imported powder. However, prices for fresh-milk-based and powder-based products are not significantly different. I address this puzzle by first confirming the preference using choice-based...

Farmers in developing countries often encounter difficulties selling their products on local markets. Inadequate transport infrastructure and large distances between areas of production and consumption mean that farmers find it costly to bring their produce to the market and this very often...

Transport costs play a key role in agricultural markets in developing countries and are one of the causes of poverty amongst farmers that are geographically isolated. Another characteristic of agricultural markets is that they often involve interlinked transactions. However, the existing...