Secondary towns, agricultural prices, and intensification: Evidence from Ethiopia

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Markets
cg.coverage.countryEthiopia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ET
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africa
cg.creator.identifierBart Minten: 0000-0002-2183-1845
cg.creator.identifierJohan Swinnen: 0000-0002-8650-1978
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Development Strategy and Governance Division
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot ranked
cg.number102en
cg.placeWashington, DCen
cg.placeAddis Ababa, Ethiopiaen
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
dc.contributor.authorVandercasteelen, Joachimen
dc.contributor.authorTamru, Seneshawen
dc.contributor.authorMinten, Barten
dc.contributor.authorSwinnen, Johanen
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-21T09:24:12Zen
dc.date.available2024-06-21T09:24:12Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/148259
dc.titleSecondary towns, agricultural prices, and intensification: Evidence from Ethiopiaen
dcterms.abstractUrbanization is happening fast in the developing world and especially so in sub-Saharan Africa where growth rates of cities are among the highest in the world. While cities and, in particular, secondary towns, where most of the urban population in sub-Saharan Africa resides, affect agricultural practices in their rural hinterlands, this relationship is not well understood. To fill this gap, we develop a conceptual model to analyze how farmers’ proximity to cities of different sizes affects agricultural prices and intensification of farming. We then test these predictions using large-scale survey data from producers of teff, a major staple crop in Ethiopia, relying on unique data on transport costs and road networks and implementing an array of econometric models. We find that agricultural price behavior and intensification is determined by proximity to a city and the type of city. While proximity to cities has a strong positive effect on agricultural output prices and on uptake of modern inputs and yields on farms, the effects on prices and intensification measures are lower for farmers in the rural hinterlands of secondary towns compared to primate cities.en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationVandercasteelen, Joachim; Tamru, Seneshaw; Minten, Bart; Swinnen, Johan. 2017. Secondary towns, agricultural prices, and intensification: Evidence from Ethiopia. ESSP Working Paper 102. Washington, DC and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148259en
dcterms.extent23 pagesen
dcterms.isPartOfESSP Working Paperen
dcterms.issued2017
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
dcterms.publisherEthiopian Development Research Instituteen
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.03.006en
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/131081en
dcterms.subjectintensive farmingen
dcterms.subjecturban populationen
dcterms.subjectinputsen
dcterms.subjecteragrostis tefen
dcterms.subjecturbanizationen
dcterms.subjectagricultural pricesen
dcterms.subjectintensificationen
dcterms.subjectdeveloping countriesen
dcterms.subjecttownsen
dcterms.subjectyieldsen
dcterms.typeWorking Paper

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