Does linking farmers to markets work? Evidence from the World Food Programme’s Purchase for Progress satellite collection points initiative in Uganda

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dc.creatorKizito, Andrew Muganga
dc.creatorKato, Edward
dc.date2018-07-23
dc.date2024-06-21T09:08:47Z
dc.date2024-06-21T09:08:47Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:21:43Z
dc.descriptionUsing a non-experimental cross-sectional dataset of 471 households, we evaluate the impacts of satellite collection points (SCPs) under the Purchase for Progress (P4P) initiative implemented by the World Food Programme (WFP) on storage decisions and crop income from maize sales among smallholder farmers in Uganda. We find strong evidence that storage users had significantly more maize sales due to significantly larger inventories and received higher maize prices than the nonstorage users. This evidence is robust across the two econometric estimators, consisting of the ordinary least squares (OLS) and two-stage instrumental variable approaches. These results demonstrate that the SCPs are successful in linking farmers to markets and result in improved welfare of the users, suggesting that they should be scaled up and scaled out as a poverty-reducing development intervention and strategy in rural areas with storable agricultural products.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/146796
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/102145
dc.languageen
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceKizito, Andrew Muganga and Kato, Edward. 2018. Does linking farmers to markets work? Evidence from the world food programme’s purchase for progress satellite collection points initiative in Uganda. African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 13(2): 169-181. https://afjare.org/does-linking-farmers-to-markets-work-evidence-from-the-world-food-programmes-purchase-for-progress-satellite-collectionpoints-initiative-in-uganda/
dc.subjectincome
dc.subjectcrop storage
dc.subjectagricultural production
dc.subjectmethods
dc.subjectstorage
dc.subjectmaize
dc.subjectcapacity development
dc.subjectcrop production
dc.subjectmarketing
dc.subjectsmallholders
dc.subjectmarket access
dc.subjectagricultural development
dc.titleDoes linking farmers to markets work? Evidence from the World Food Programme’s Purchase for Progress satellite collection points initiative in Uganda
dc.typeJournal Article

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