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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 5-21 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Agricultural Economics (United Kingdom) |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Early online date | 10 Aug 2021 |
| Publication status | Published - 13 Jan 2022 |
Abstract
The increasing demand for high-value agricultural products such as fresh fruit presents opportunities for farmers in developing countries due to their higher market value compared with traditional staple crops. This study uses data on trust, risk, and time preferences obtained through behavioral experiments, combined with a discrete choice experiment to understand their effect on farmers’ choices of marketing attributes, collecting data from 252 farmers from Eastern Rwanda. The results reveal that farmers, overall, have positive attitudes toward collective marketing channels with guaranteed immediate payments, written contracts, provision of inputs, credit, and training, a personal relationship with a buyer, and low investment costs. Additionally, farmers with lower levels of risk aversion were found to have a greater preference for immediate payment than farmers with higher levels of risk aversion. Farmers with higher future orientation are more likely to choose contracts that guarantee inputs and/or services and written contracts, and they attach lower relative importance to immediate payments than farmers with lower future orientation. Farmers with higher trust levels attach lower relative importance to immediate payments, written contracts, and a personal relationship with a buyer than farmers with lower trust levels.
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- Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all)
- Agronomy and Crop Science
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all)
- Economics and Econometrics
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In: Agricultural Economics (United Kingdom), Vol. 53, No. 1, 13.01.2022, p. 5-21.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Preferences for tree fruit market attributes among smallholder farmers in Eastern Rwanda
AU - Ihli, Hanna
AU - Seegers, Ronja
AU - Winter, Etti
AU - Chiputwa, Brian
AU - Gassner, Anja
N1 - Funding Information: This study was supported through funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) under the grant (grant number: IH 128/2‐1) and the CRC/Transregio 228: Future Rural Africa: Future‐making and social‐ecological transformation (Project number: 328966760). We gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the project “Harnessing the potential of trees on farms for meeting national and global biodiversity targets”, funded by The International Climate Initiative (IKI) (Grant number: BMUZ_1273), and implemented by World Agroforestry (ICRAF) with various partners.
PY - 2022/1/13
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N2 - The increasing demand for high-value agricultural products such as fresh fruit presents opportunities for farmers in developing countries due to their higher market value compared with traditional staple crops. This study uses data on trust, risk, and time preferences obtained through behavioral experiments, combined with a discrete choice experiment to understand their effect on farmers’ choices of marketing attributes, collecting data from 252 farmers from Eastern Rwanda. The results reveal that farmers, overall, have positive attitudes toward collective marketing channels with guaranteed immediate payments, written contracts, provision of inputs, credit, and training, a personal relationship with a buyer, and low investment costs. Additionally, farmers with lower levels of risk aversion were found to have a greater preference for immediate payment than farmers with higher levels of risk aversion. Farmers with higher future orientation are more likely to choose contracts that guarantee inputs and/or services and written contracts, and they attach lower relative importance to immediate payments than farmers with lower future orientation. Farmers with higher trust levels attach lower relative importance to immediate payments, written contracts, and a personal relationship with a buyer than farmers with lower trust levels.
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