Secondary towns, agricultural prices, and intensification: Evidence from Ethiopia

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dc.creatorVandercasteelen, Joachim
dc.creatorTamru, Seneshaw
dc.creatorMinten, Bart
dc.creatorSwinnen, Johan
dc.date2017
dc.date2024-06-21T09:24:12Z
dc.date2024-06-21T09:24:12Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:15:16Z
dc.descriptionUrbanization is happening fast in the developing world and especially so in sub-Saharan Africa where growth rates of cities are among the highest in the world. While cities and, in particular, secondary towns, where most of the urban population in sub-Saharan Africa resides, affect agricultural practices in their rural hinterlands, this relationship is not well understood. To fill this gap, we develop a conceptual model to analyze how farmers’ proximity to cities of different sizes affects agricultural prices and intensification of farming. We then test these predictions using large-scale survey data from producers of teff, a major staple crop in Ethiopia, relying on unique data on transport costs and road networks and implementing an array of econometric models. We find that agricultural price behavior and intensification is determined by proximity to a city and the type of city. While proximity to cities has a strong positive effect on agricultural output prices and on uptake of modern inputs and yields on farms, the effects on prices and intensification measures are lower for farmers in the rural hinterlands of secondary towns compared to primate cities.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/148259
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/98975
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.publisherEthiopian Development Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.03.006
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceVandercasteelen, Joachim; Tamru, Seneshaw; Minten, Bart; Swinnen, Johan. 2017. Secondary towns, agricultural prices, and intensification: Evidence from Ethiopia. ESSP Working Paper 102. Washington, DC and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148259
dc.subjectintensive farming
dc.subjecturban population
dc.subjectinputs
dc.subjecteragrostis tef
dc.subjecturbanization
dc.subjectagricultural prices
dc.subjectintensification
dc.subjectdeveloping countries
dc.subjecttowns
dc.subjectyields
dc.titleSecondary towns, agricultural prices, and intensification: Evidence from Ethiopia
dc.typeWorking Paper

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