Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/98226 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
ZEF Discussion Papers on Development Policy No. 189
Publisher: 
University of Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF), Bonn
Abstract: 
We investigate the impact of smallholder vegetable commercialization through the export and domestic market channels on household income and assets in Kenya. We use a survey panel dataset, which allows us to control for unobserved heterogeneity across households, and show that the commercialization of vegetables through both market channels contributes positively to welfare, even when addressing the issue of selection into commercialization. While the production of vegetables for the export market is consistently associated with income in a positive way, the results for asset holdings as the measure of household welfare are weaker and supportive only for the domestic market channel, which weakens the notion of smallholder commercialization being a 'pro-poor' strategy.
Subjects: 
horticulture
commercialization
welfare
poverty
smallholders
Kenya
JEL: 
O12
O13
Q13
Q17
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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