Growing African Indigenous Vegetables (AIVs) is an innovative way to address poverty and malnutrition problems in Zambia. Farmers’ bargaining power plays an important role in increasing AIV production and farmers’ income. Based on 300 responses from Zambian AIV farmers, we defined AIV farmers’ bargaining power and analyzed its benefits to farmers and the AIV industry. We used the ordered logistic regression model (OLRM) to analyze the influence of several factors that contribute to farmers’ bargaining power, and then used the interpretative structural modeling (ISM) to analyze the relationship and hierarchical structure between the effects. Four key results and innovations arose from the analysis of the data. First, we defined farmers’ bargaining power through their self-reported bargaining power. Second, we found that the respondents’ bargaining power was significantly influenced by seven variables: age, gender, education, main trading partners, awareness of AIV prices, and distance to the market from the farm. Third, the main trading partners and awareness of AIV prices are surface direct factors, gender, education and distance to the market from the farm are middle indirect relationships, and age, belong to any community are deep root factors. Last, farmers’ bargaining power can be improved through education, especially women’s education level, strengthening farmers’ organization construction, altering some of the farmers’ trading methods, and developing infrastructure. Overall, we found that bargaining power has played an important role in obtaining higher prices, getting faster payment, getting more income from AIV sales, and expanding AIV planting areas for farmers.
AIVs Negotiating prices Selling prices Influencing factor analysis Profitability
This research was supported by the Horticulture Innovation Lab with funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID EPA-A-00-09-00004), as part of the U.S. Government’s global hunger and food security initiative, Feed the Future, for a project titled ‘‘Improving nutrition with African indigenous vegetables’’ in eastern Africa. We also thank the New Jersey Agriculture Experiment Station (HATCH project 12131); Himoonga Moonga, Mebelo Mataa, and John Shindano, University of Zambia; and Kenneth Chali and Lupiya Sakala, AgriSmart, Zambia; John Bowman, USAID- Washington and Beth Mitcham, UC-Davis. This work was also supported by the National Social Science Fund of China(21BJY249), and the MOE Project of Humanities and Social Sciences of China (Project No. 18YJA790100).
Birincil Dil | İngilizce |
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Konular | Ziraat Mühendisliği (Diğer) |
Bölüm | Makaleler |
Yazarlar | |
Yayımlanma Tarihi | 9 Ocak 2024 |
Gönderilme Tarihi | 19 Ocak 2023 |
Kabul Tarihi | 22 Ekim 2023 |
Yayımlandığı Sayı | Yıl 2024 Cilt: 30 Sayı: 1 |
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