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A Spatially Explicit Approach for Targeting Resource-Poor Smallholders to Improve Their Participation in Agribusiness: A Case of Nyando and Vihiga County in Western Kenya

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2020
The majority of smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa face myriad challenges to participating in agribusiness markets. However, how the spatially explicit factors interact to influence household decision choices at the local level is not well ...
Mwehe Mathenge   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Household Debt, Stock Market Participation, and Stock Market Returns: A Mediation Analysis

open access: yes, 2023
This thesis investigates whether increases in household debt increase stock market participation, and consequently decrease stock market returns. The three-way link is investigated across the immediate, short, and medium term, income groups, and the ...
Moalafi, C.
core   +1 more source

Seeing through digitalization! The influence of entrepreneurial networks on market participation among smallholder farmers in Tanzania. The mediating role of digital technology

open access: yesCogent Food & Agriculture, 2023
Smallholder farmers have for a long time preferred to sell at the farm gate, where the prices have been very low compared to market places. This has been fueled by several challenges related to market participation. The purpose of this study is therefore
Ismail J. Ismail
doaj   +1 more source

Grandparent childcare and labour market participation in Australia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This study explores the intersection between grandparents’ childcare provision and their labour market and retirement decisions. In the context of an ageing population and the associated challenges this will pose, there is growing policy ...
Bridget Jenkins   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Determinants of maize farmers market participation in Southern Ethiopia: Emphasis on demographic, socioeconomic and institutional factors

open access: yesCogent Food & Agriculture, 2023
Maize is the main cereal crop that supports the livelihoods of millions of smallholder farmers in Africa. However, one of the main bottlenecks for maize production is low market penetration.
Alula Tafesse   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Effect of Rural Road Transport on Crop Commercialization: Evidence from the Ethiopian Living Standard Measurement Survey

open access: yesEthiopian Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities, 2017
Ethiopia has adopted commercialization of smallholder agriculture as a policy tool for agricultural development and rural transformation thereby to improve rural welfare. Towards this end, the government has given policy focus to rual road infrastracture.
Noad Mekonnen, Bamlaku Alamirew
doaj   +1 more source

Market participation decision of smallholder farmers and its determinants in Bangladesh [PDF]

open access: yesEkonomika Poljoprivrede (1979), 2015
This paper explores the market participation decision of smallholder farmers in Bangladesh and tries to sort out the most important factors that influence smallholder farmers' decision to participate in the output market to sell their produce in ...
Gani Osmani Ataul, Hossain Elias
doaj   +1 more source

Factors influencing the intensity of market participation of smallholder livestock producers in southwest Ethiopia

open access: yesCogent Economics & Finance, 2023
Livestock market participation is an important way to improve the livelihoods and income of the smallholder farmers in Southwest Ethiopia. Although it plays an important role, livestock producers do not fully participate in the livestock market.
Yaregal Tilahun   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Constraints to commercialisation of smallholder agriculture in Tanintharyi division, Myanmar

open access: yesJournal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics, 2019
Myanmar is a country in rapid economic and political transition, with opportunities emerging for its smallholders to benefit from current economic growth.
Shaun Snoxell, Michael Lyne
doaj   +1 more source

SMALLHOLDER FARMERS’ CROP COMMERCILIZATION IN THE HIGHLANDS OF EASTERN ETHIOPIA [PDF]

open access: yesReview of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2017
This paper sorts out the most important factors influencing crop market participation of smallholder farmers in the highlands of Eastern Ethiopia. The study used primary data collected from 385 smallholder farmers during the year 2015.
Alelign ADEME   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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