Determinants of smallholders farmers participation in banana markets in central Africa: the role of transaction costs

cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agricultureen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Pretoriaen
cg.contributor.affiliationEgerton Universityen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversität Hohenheimen
cg.contributor.donorDirectorate-General for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid, Belgiumen
cg.coverage.countryBurundi
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2BI
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.creator.identifierEmily Ouma: 0000-0002-3123-1376
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-0862.2009.00429.xen
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn0169-5150en
cg.issue2en
cg.journalAgricultural Economicsen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.iitaBANANAen
cg.subject.iitaMARKETSen
cg.volume41en
dc.contributor.authorOuma, Emily A.en
dc.contributor.authorJagwe, J.en
dc.contributor.authorObare, G.A.en
dc.contributor.authorAbele, S.en
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-14T08:07:54Zen
dc.date.available2017-11-14T08:07:54Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/89392
dc.titleDeterminants of smallholders farmers participation in banana markets in central Africa: the role of transaction costsen
dcterms.abstractA bivariate probit model was employed to jointly and separately estimate banana market participation decisions of buying and selling households in Rwanda and Burundi using household survey data. Selectivity bias was corrected for in estimating the transacted volumes using Heckman’s procedure. The results showed that transaction cost related factors such as geographical location of households, market information sources, and travel time to the nearest urban centre influence market participation. Non price related factors such as security of land tenure, labor availability, off farm income, gender of the household head and years of farming experience had a significant influence on the transacted volumes. Output prices had a significant effect on sales volume, providing incentives for increased supply by sellers. Generally, the findings suggest that policies aimed at investments in rural road infrastructure, collective marketing and value addition of banana products may provide a potential avenue for mitigating transactions costs and enhancing market participation and production of marketed surplus by rural households.en
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2010-03
dcterms.bibliographicCitationOuma, E., Jagwe, J., Obare, G.A. & Abele, S. (2010). Determinants of smallholder farmers' participation in banana markets in Central Africa: the role of transaction costs. Agricultural Economics, 41(2), 111-122.en
dcterms.extent111-122en
dcterms.issued2010-03
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserved
dcterms.publisherWileyen
dcterms.subjectsmallholdersen
dcterms.subjectmarket participationen
dcterms.subjecttransaction costsen
dcterms.subjectbananasen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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