The paper examines the revenue effects of certified organic contract farming for
smallholders and of adoption of organic agricultural farming methods in a tropical African …

Purpose–Contract farming (CF) is seen as a tool for creating new market opportunities
hence increasing incomes for smallholder farmers. Critics, however, argue that CF is likely to …

Market participation is both a cause and a consequence of economic development. Markets
offer households the opportunity to specialize according to comparative advantage and …

This article aims at analyzing Beninese smallholder famers' selection of high value markets,
such as export and processing-oriented marketing channels, in the pineapple supply chain …

Background: Tobacco growing has been considered a mainstay of Mozambique's economy,
but there is a dearth of analysis of the tobacco policy landscape in the country. Methods …

Abstract Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) have been identified as a key source of
income for rural households. In South Africa, mopane worms (Imbrasia belina) have become …

Standards are replacing tariffs as the main trade barriers facing African agro-food exports.
This book examines the challenges and opportunities that new public and private standards …

This paper examines determinants of output and input market participation. It employs
propensity score matching techniques to evaluate the impact of market participation on …

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 …

Increasing market participation among smallholder producers has the potential to lift them to
better income levels through increased productivity and surplus production. Nowhere in the …