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| Achterbosch, Thom J.; Allbritton, Amanda; Quang, Dang Viet; Eaton, Derek J.F.; de Jager, Andre; Meijerink, Gerdien W.; Njue, Evelyn; Ssonko, Robinah; Stallen, Marcel; Wertheim-Heck, Sigrid; van Wijk, Siebe. |
| There is increasing insight into how household poverty in rural and peri-urban areas is affected by developments in the markets for fruit, vegetables and flowers. This study extends the knowledge, and feeds into the debate on agricultural growth policies. Based on a positive outlook on the growth of horticultural production and distribution and marketing in the low income countries of Uganda and Vietnam, this paper asks whether poor and vulnerable groups in society share in the benefits of the foreseen economic expansion. Primary survey data is collected on the differentiated position of low-income households in different supply structures (with varying levels of vertical coordination) and markets (national, regional and international markets). The data... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Crop Production/Industries; Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7908 |
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| Kuiper, Marijke H.; Meijerink, Gerdien W.; Eaton, Derek J.F.. |
| A concentration of poor in rural areas has resulted in a research and policy focus on agricultural technologies and (poor) households impact on soil productivity. But farm households do not live of farming alone, non-farm activities play a principal role even in remote areas. With a unique household-level dataset covering seven regions in Africa and two in Asia we analyze (1) the importance of non-farm income in different geographical zones; (2) the role of geographical factors in determining access to non-farm employment; (3) the role of non-farm income in external input use and soil nitrogen balances. Distinguishing geographical zones based on the distance to urban areas we find the share of non-farm income increasing from 12 percent in the remote areas... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Off-farm income; Rural development; Micro-economics; Labor and Human Capital; Q12; D1; J43; Q24. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25442 |
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| Meijerink, Gerdien W.. |
| The idea of Payments for environmental services (PES) has an appealing simplicity, which may explain the success of the concept. However, successful projects are far limited though and two constraints have been identified in literature. The first is limited demand: too few service users are so confident about the mechanism that they are willing to pay. The second obstacle is poor knowledge on the institutional requirements entailing incentive and livelihood mechanisms which so far have received comparatively less attention. This paper focuses on both constraints by arguing that monitoring effectiveness and conditionality of PES schemes are crucial and that institutional arrangements for monitoring should be in place. By analysing in a systematic way what... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: PES; Monitoring; Measurement; Institutional arrangement; Environmental Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7948 |
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| Eaton, Derek J.F.; Meijerink, Gerdien W.; Bijman, Jos; Belt, John. |
| Institutional innovations are increasingly seen as key to achieving not only agricultural growth, by overcoming market failures, but also to ensure that poor smallholders also benefit from this process. This paper analyses institutional arrangements for vegetable marketing in East Africa from a transaction cost perspective. Marketing of vegetables is still dominated by spot markets with some, but still limited, movement towards farmers' engaging collectively in contract farming through producers' organisations. It appears that little is understood concerning how farmers and traders have overcome transaction costs in such situations, and this area deserves increased attention. An understanding of how institutional change occurs is necessary if donor... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Institutional and Behavioral Economics. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7921 |
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