Use of wealth ranking to analyse factors influencing smallholder farmers' market participation in northern Mozambique

Autor: Steve Worth, Peter L Greenfield, Maryann Green, Gastão Lukanu
Rok vydání: 2006
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Zdroj: Development Southern Africa. 23:669-683
ISSN: 1470-3637
0376-835X
Popis: This study analysed factors influencing smallholders' market participation, using wealth-ranking factors. Two hypotheses were tested: that (1) wealth status and (2) wealth-ranking factors are positively related to market participation. Significant and positive relationships were found between wealth-ranking factors (labour, number of livestock, implements, bicycles, food availability, area of land cultivated and crops sold) and wealth status. Wealth status and wealth-ranking factors were positively and significantly correlated with the number of different kinds of cash crops sold. However, household characteristics not indicated as wealth-ranking factors, such as age, gender and literacy level, related insignificantly to market participation. Labour was the most important wealth-ranking factor explaining market participation. This analytical tool can be used to assess the wealth-ranking factors that influence market participation. It can help identify strategies for improving this participation and may al...
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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