Arbeitspapier
Agricultural supply response and poverty in Mozambique
This paper identifies the key causal factors behind farmers’ marketing decisions in Mozambique. A two-step decision making process is modelled. Farmers decide, first, whether or not to participate in the market and, second, how much to market. The model is estimated using a Heckman switching regression approach. Marginal effects are calculated for the poor and the nonpoor and broken down into a market participation component and a quantity (sales value) component. The key importance of non-price factors such as technology, transport infrastructure, farm environment and area characteristics come out clearly. The marginal effects for the poor are not substantially different from those of the nonpoor, suggesting that differences in assets and area characteristics are more important than differences in underlying behaviour. Moreover, inducing farmers previously not in the market appears more important for total sales than focussing economic policy on those already in the market. To achieve pro-poor rural growth it is therefore essential to address explicitly the conditions of high-risk, low productivity and low capital endowments of poor farmers. – agriculture ; supply response ; food marketing ; Africa ; Mozambique
- ISBN
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9291900516
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: WIDER Discussion Paper ; No. 2001/114
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
Agricultural Policy; Food Policy
Economic Development: Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products
- Thema
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Landwirtschaft
Agrarmarkt
Armut
Mosambik
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Heltberg, Rasmus
Tarp, Finn
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
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Helsinki
- (wann)
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2001
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Heltberg, Rasmus
- Tarp, Finn
- The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
Entstanden
- 2001
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