Beyond one-size-fits-all: Differentiating market access measures for commodity systems in the Kenyan highlands

Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 536-548

  Baltenweck, Isabelle ^a   Staal, Steve ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Market access; Price formation; Spatial analysis; Transactions costs

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MARKET; COMMODITY PRICE; PRICE DYNAMICS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TRANSACTION COST; UPLAND REGION;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; KENYA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 34548230660     PISSN: 0021857X     EISSN: 14779552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-9552.2007.00129.x     Document Type: Article

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