Does agricultural commercialisation increase asset and livestock accumulation on smallholder farms in Ethiopia?
The transition of farmers from subsistence to market-oriented agriculture is meant to reduce hunger, increase wellbeing and accelerate rural economic progress. While an impressive extant literature has analysed agricultural commercialisation effects on welfare from an income, expenditure and consump...
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| author | Tabe-Ojong, Martin Paul Jr. Hauser, Michael Mausch, Kai |
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| description | The transition of farmers from subsistence to market-oriented agriculture is meant to reduce hunger, increase wellbeing and accelerate rural economic progress. While an impressive extant literature has analysed agricultural commercialisation effects on welfare from an income, expenditure and consumption perspective, authors place less attention on the implications on asset holdings, which is a more robust long-term measure of welfare. Using chickpea production in Ethiopia as a case, we assess the effects of chickpea commercialisation on household asset ownership and livestock holdings of smallholder farmers. We employ a household fixed-effects estimator to control for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity and account for possible endogeneity using an instrumental variable approach. For comparison purposes, we also evaluate the income effects of chickpea and examine impact heterogeneity using quantile regressions. Our results indicate a positive impact of agricultural commercialisation on assets, livestock ownership and income. We found commercialisation to benefit all farmers in terms of impact heterogeneity, though with higher gains for asset-rich households. Despite this rising asset inequality, we conclude that increased agricultural commercialisation can contribute to economic development of households and reduce rural poverty. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1411522025-10-26T13:02:30Z Does agricultural commercialisation increase asset and livestock accumulation on smallholder farms in Ethiopia? Tabe-Ojong, Martin Paul Jr. Hauser, Michael Mausch, Kai income models data surveys agriculture smallholders markets assets ownership livestock commercialization agricultural trade The transition of farmers from subsistence to market-oriented agriculture is meant to reduce hunger, increase wellbeing and accelerate rural economic progress. While an impressive extant literature has analysed agricultural commercialisation effects on welfare from an income, expenditure and consumption perspective, authors place less attention on the implications on asset holdings, which is a more robust long-term measure of welfare. Using chickpea production in Ethiopia as a case, we assess the effects of chickpea commercialisation on household asset ownership and livestock holdings of smallholder farmers. We employ a household fixed-effects estimator to control for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity and account for possible endogeneity using an instrumental variable approach. For comparison purposes, we also evaluate the income effects of chickpea and examine impact heterogeneity using quantile regressions. Our results indicate a positive impact of agricultural commercialisation on assets, livestock ownership and income. We found commercialisation to benefit all farmers in terms of impact heterogeneity, though with higher gains for asset-rich households. Despite this rising asset inequality, we conclude that increased agricultural commercialisation can contribute to economic development of households and reduce rural poverty. 2022-03-04 2024-04-12T13:37:22Z 2024-04-12T13:37:22Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141152 en Open Access Informa UK Limited Tabe Ojong, Martin Paul JR; Hauser, Michael; and Mausch, Kai. 2022. Does agricultural commercialisation increase asset and livestock accumulation on smallholder farms in Ethiopia? Journal of Development Studies 58(3): 524-544. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2021.1983170 |
| spellingShingle | income models data surveys agriculture smallholders markets assets ownership livestock commercialization agricultural trade Tabe-Ojong, Martin Paul Jr. Hauser, Michael Mausch, Kai Does agricultural commercialisation increase asset and livestock accumulation on smallholder farms in Ethiopia? |
| title | Does agricultural commercialisation increase asset and livestock accumulation on smallholder farms in Ethiopia? |
| title_full | Does agricultural commercialisation increase asset and livestock accumulation on smallholder farms in Ethiopia? |
| title_fullStr | Does agricultural commercialisation increase asset and livestock accumulation on smallholder farms in Ethiopia? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Does agricultural commercialisation increase asset and livestock accumulation on smallholder farms in Ethiopia? |
| title_short | Does agricultural commercialisation increase asset and livestock accumulation on smallholder farms in Ethiopia? |
| title_sort | does agricultural commercialisation increase asset and livestock accumulation on smallholder farms in ethiopia |
| topic | income models data surveys agriculture smallholders markets assets ownership livestock commercialization agricultural trade |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141152 |
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