Accessing local markets: Marketsheds

Across Africa buying and selling connects people. For a small-scale farmer, this trade takes place primarily within a limited geographic area based on access to market centers of a given size. The maps illustrate these areas using different colors to represent marketsheds—geographical areas and asso...

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Autores principales: Guo, Zhe, Cox, Cindy M.
Formato: Capítulo de libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150926
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description Across Africa buying and selling connects people. For a small-scale farmer, this trade takes place primarily within a limited geographic area based on access to market centers of a given size. The maps illustrate these areas using different colors to represent marketsheds—geographical areas and associated populations that are part of real or potential trade networks with a given market. From any location within a marketshed, it takes less time to travel to the corresponding market compared to any neighboring markets. In theory, farmers within a marketshed prefer to trade their commodities at the corresponding market, which minimizes travel cost (p. 66).
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spelling CGSpace1509262025-11-06T03:56:45Z Accessing local markets: Marketsheds Guo, Zhe Cox, Cindy M. geographical information systems investment agricultural research population agriculture markets market access trade geography agricultural development Across Africa buying and selling connects people. For a small-scale farmer, this trade takes place primarily within a limited geographic area based on access to market centers of a given size. The maps illustrate these areas using different colors to represent marketsheds—geographical areas and associated populations that are part of real or potential trade networks with a given market. From any location within a marketshed, it takes less time to travel to the corresponding market compared to any neighboring markets. In theory, farmers within a marketshed prefer to trade their commodities at the corresponding market, which minimizes travel cost (p. 66). 2014 2024-08-01T02:54:20Z 2024-08-01T02:54:20Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150926 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153606 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Guo, Zhe; Cox, Cindy. 2014. Accessing local markets: Marketsheds. In Atlas of African Agriculture. Sebastian, Kate, Ed. Pp. 68-69. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896298460_29
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investment
agricultural research
population
agriculture
markets
market access
trade
geography
agricultural development
Guo, Zhe
Cox, Cindy M.
Accessing local markets: Marketsheds
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title_full Accessing local markets: Marketsheds
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title_short Accessing local markets: Marketsheds
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topic geographical information systems
investment
agricultural research
population
agriculture
markets
market access
trade
geography
agricultural development
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150926
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