Welfare effects of vegetable commercialization: Evidence from smallholder producers in Kenya
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UNCCD Library
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ebook
ISSN
1436-9931
The study investigates the impact of smallholder vegetable commercialization through the export and domestic market channels on household income and assets in Kenya. The authors 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
Geographical Keywords
Kenya
Keywords
horticulture
smallholder farmers
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