Project
Improving maize value chains in East Africa: Three complementary approaches
Maize is the main crop for smallholders in East Africa – grown as both a food and cash crop. We test the effectiveness and efficiency of three complementary interventions aimed at intensifying production and linking smallholders to markets. These interventions address bottlenecks associated with seed input value chains, on-farm storage, and linkages to high-value output markets.
OUTPUT
"Smallholder Farming Households' Make-or-Buy Decisions: Linking Market Access, Production Risks, and Production Diversity to Dietary Diversity", by Michael Keenan et al.
"Investment and Household Bargaining in Small-scale Farming Households - A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment from Rural Tanzania", by Michael Keenan et al.
Liquidity, Scale Economies, and Shocks: Theoretical and Empirical Determinants of Side-Selling in Peruvian Specialty Coffee Cooperatives", by Michael Keenan et al.
Maize price seasonality in Ethiopia: Does access to improved grain storage technology increase farmers’ welfare?, paper by Betelhem Negede
"Does access to improved grain storage technology increase farmers’ welfare? Evidence from a randomized trial in Ethiopia", a brief by Betelhem Negede
"Returns to Quality in Rural Agricultural Markets: Evidence from Wheat Markets in Ethiopia", baseline report by Jérémy Do Nascimento Miguel
"African Farmers, Value Chains and Agricultural Development", book by Alan de Brauw and Erwin Bulte on results of milestone analysis
"Competition on Agricultural Markets and Quality of Smallholder Supply: The Role of Relational Contracting and Input Provision by Traders", E.H. Bulte, B. Plambou Anissa et al.
"Is the local wheat market a ‘market for lemons’? Certifying the supply of individual wheat farmers in Ethiopia", by Banawe Plambou Anissa