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Title: MANAGING SEASONALITY IN WEST AFRICAN INFORMAL URBAN VEGETABLE MARKETS: THE ROLE OF HOUSEHOLD RELATIONS
Authors: Bellwood-Howard, I.
Ansah, I. G. K.
Donkoh, S. A.
Korbéogo, G.
Keywords: agricultural markets
Burkina Faso
Ghana
Mali
performance
seasonality
social relations
West Africa
Issue Date: 2021
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Series/Report no.: Vol. 33;Issue 5
Abstract: Seasonality influences African informal agricultural markets, but existing literature inadequately explores its interactions with market actors' social relations and livelihood outcomes.Thus, agricultural commercialization policy ineffectively supports such actors to manage seasonality. Across Bamako, Ouagadougou and Tamale, we conducted interviews, focus group discussions, and a survey of farmer and marketer profits across seasons. Hot, dry season lettuce transactions performed by marketers are more likely to make profit. Farmers and marketers rely on household and community relations and reproduce gendered skills to optimise profit and secure future income streams. Policies supporting household reproduction, and infrastructure, may best support their marketing activity.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3531
ISSN: 1099-1328
Appears in Collections:Faculty of Communication and Cultural Studies



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