Arbeitspapier

Welfare effects of vegetable commercializatino: Evidence from smallhoder producers in Kenya

We investigate the impact of smallholder vegetable commercialization through the export and domestic market channels on 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 market is consistently associated with income in a positive way, the results for asset holdings as the measure of household welfare are weaker and supportive only for the domestic market channel, which weakens the notion of smallholder commercialization being a 'pro-poor' strategy.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ZEF Discussion Papers on Development Policy ; No. 189

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Economic Development: Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products
Agricultural Markets and Marketing; Cooperatives; Agribusiness
Agriculture in International Trade
Thema
horticulture
commercialization
welfare
poverty
smallholders
Kenya

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Muriithi, Beatrice W.
Matz, Julia Anna
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
University of Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2014

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Muriithi, Beatrice W.
  • Matz, Julia Anna
  • University of Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF)

Entstanden

  • 2014

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