Welfare effects of vegetable commercializationEvidence from smallhoder producers in Kenya
Welfare effects of vegetable commercialization
Evidence from smallhoder producers in Kenya
dc.contributor.author | Muriithi, Beatrice W. | |
dc.contributor.author | Matz, Julia Anna | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-09-19T15:10:53Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-09-19T15:10:53Z | |
dc.date.issued | 04.2014 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/12199 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | de |
dc.format.extent | 31 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | ZEF-Discussion Papers on Development Policy ; 189 | |
dc.rights | In Copyright | |
dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
dc.subject | horticulture | |
dc.subject | commercialization | |
dc.subject | welfare | |
dc.subject | poverty | |
dc.subject | smallholders | |
dc.subject | Kenya | |
dc.subject.ddc | 300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie | |
dc.subject.ddc | 320 Politik | |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 Wirtschaft | |
dc.title | Welfare effects of vegetable commercialization | |
dc.title.alternative | Evidence from smallhoder producers in Kenya | |
dc.type | Arbeitspapier | |
dc.publisher.name | Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn | |
dc.publisher.location | Bonn | |
dc.rights.accessRights | openAccess | |
dc.relation.eissn | 1436-9931 | |
dc.relation.url | https://www.zef.de/fileadmin/user_upload/ZEF_DP189.pdf | |
ulbbn.pubtype | Zweitveröffentlichung | |
dc.version | publishedVersion |