Big cities, small towns, and poor farmers: Evidence from Ethiopia
Urbanization 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 prac...
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| author | Vandercasteelen, Joachim Beyene, Seneshaw Temru Minten, Bart Swinnen, Johan |
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| description | Urbanization 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. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1463102025-02-24T06:46:44Z Big cities, small towns, and poor farmers: Evidence from Ethiopia Vandercasteelen, Joachim Beyene, Seneshaw Temru Minten, Bart Swinnen, Johan intensive farming urbanization agricultural prices intensification econometric models towns production location Urbanization 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. 2018-03-29 2024-06-21T09:06:35Z 2024-06-21T09:06:35Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146310 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148259 Open Access Elsevier Vandercasteelen, Joachim; Beyene, Seneshaw Temru; Minten, Bart; and Swinnen, Johan. 2018. Big cities, small towns, and poor farmers: Evidence from Ethiopia. World Development 106(June 2018): 393-406. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.03.006 |
| spellingShingle | intensive farming urbanization agricultural prices intensification econometric models towns production location Vandercasteelen, Joachim Beyene, Seneshaw Temru Minten, Bart Swinnen, Johan Big cities, small towns, and poor farmers: Evidence from Ethiopia |
| title | Big cities, small towns, and poor farmers: Evidence from Ethiopia |
| title_full | Big cities, small towns, and poor farmers: Evidence from Ethiopia |
| title_fullStr | Big cities, small towns, and poor farmers: Evidence from Ethiopia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Big cities, small towns, and poor farmers: Evidence from Ethiopia |
| title_short | Big cities, small towns, and poor farmers: Evidence from Ethiopia |
| title_sort | big cities small towns and poor farmers evidence from ethiopia |
| topic | intensive farming urbanization agricultural prices intensification econometric models towns production location |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146310 |
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