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Determinants of market participation decision by smallholder haricot bean (phaseolus vulgaris l.) farmers in Northwest Ethiopia

open access: yesCogent Food & Agriculture, 2021
Current knowledge on product marketing in Ethiopia is poor and inadequate for designing and implementing policies to overcome problems in the marketing system. This study was conducted to identify the factors influencing the market participation decision
Adino Andaregie   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Indirect Impact of Smallholder Vegetable Production on Children's Nutrition Outcomes in Rural Vietnam

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022
Childhood undernutrition, particularly stunting, wasting, and micronutrient deficiencies, remains a major health concern in rural Vietnam. While literature suggests leveraging agriculture to improve child nutrition via agricultural diversification ...
Christian Genova   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reference Dependence and Market Participation [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
This paper finds optimal portfolios for the reference-dependent preferences by Kőszegi and Rabin with piecewise linear gain–loss utility in a one-period model with a safe and a risky asset. If the return of the risky asset is highly dispersed relative to its potential gains, two personal equilibria arise, one of them including risky investments and ...
Paolo Guasoni, Andrea Meireles-Rodrigues
openaire   +2 more sources

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

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

Was it worth it? A comparison of the role of adult education and training in the labour market insertion and progress of men and women in the West of Scotland: results of qualitative research [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Despite a number of relevant longitudinal studies carried out in Sweden, Finland, Norway and the United States of America, there is a relative paucity of research into the long-term outcomes of adult return to learning.
Clayton, P.
core   +1 more source

Determinants of commercialization among smallholder maize farmers in Tanzania: a Tobit regression analysis

open access: yesCogent Food & Agriculture
Agriculture is fundamental to Tanzania’s economic development with smallholders producing 85% of the nation’s maize. However, their market participation remains constrained.
Angela Burton Mboma   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Determinants of market participation and intensity of marketed surplus of smallholder chickpea producers in Este woreda

open access: yesLegume Science, 2022
In Ethiopia, chickpea is an important legume crop, particularly in Este district. It is a source of food and provides cash income for majority of smallholder farmers.
Chernet Worku   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

How does who-you-sell-to affect your extent of market participation? evidence from smallholder maize farmers in Northern Ghana

open access: yesCogent Economics & Finance, 2023
This study examines the effect of marketing channel choice on the extent of market participation, with the goal of helping farm managers and policymakers to identify ways of enhancing market participation outcomes.
Agness Mzyece   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Trust, Sociability and Stock Market Participation [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2009
Abstract This article investigates the importance of both trust and sociability for stock market participation and for differences in stockholding across Europe. We estimate significant effects for the two, and find that sociability can partly balance the discouragement effect on stockholding induced by low regional prevailing trust.
Georgarakos D., PASINI, Giacomo
openaire   +6 more sources

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