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Transport Costs and Smallholder Cropping Choices: An Application to Siaya District, Kenya

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Omamo, Steven Were·1998·American Journal of Agricultural Economics
DOI 10.2307/3180274
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Smallholders regularly devote shares of resources to low‐yielding food crops than they do to cash crops that have higher market returns. In this paper, costly exchange is incorporated into an agricultural household model, and a numerical nonseparable version of the model is used to show that seemingly inefficient cropping choices of this type in Siaya District, Kenya, can be explained as rational food import substitution given high transport costs in product markets. Improved rural road networks that reduce these costs could abate motives to meet food needs through domestic production and promote specialization that raises farm incomes.

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Authors
Omamo, S. W.
Venue
American Journal of Agricultural Economics
Publisher
Wiley
Published
1998-02
Volume
80
Issue
1
Pages
116-123
ISSN
  • 0002-9092 (ISSN-L)
  • 1467-8276
DOI
10.2307/3180274
OpenAlex
W2013995008
Cited by
279
References
11
FWCI
16.20
Type
journal article
Language
en
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green

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