Welfare impacts of smallholder farmers' participation in multiple output markets: Empirical evidence from Tanzania.

ABSTRACT: A relatively large body of literature has documented the welfare effects of smallholder farmers' participation in single-commodity output markets. However, limited empirical evidence is available when smallholder farmers participate in multiple-commodities output markets. We tried to fill this gap in the literature by estimating the impacts of smallholder farmers' contemporaneous participation in both maize and legume markets vis-à-vis in only maize or legume markets using household-level data from Tanzania. Applying a multinomial endogenous switching regression model that allows controlling for observed and unobserved heterogeneity associated with market participation in single-commodity and multiple-commodity markets, results showed that smallholder farmers' participation in both single-

SUBMITTER: Manda J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8101961 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature