Theory, Practice and Impact Assessment of Making Markets Work for the Poor (M4P) Approach to Agricultural Development in Nigeria.

B.Sc. Pius Nnahiwe

Master's thesis

Abstract:

This study examines the impact of Making Markets Work for the Poor (M4P) approach to facilitating market access, with a case study of facilitating alternative guaranteed market for smallholder tomato farmers by linking them to a processing plant in Kaduna state, Nigeria. Using field survey data whilst extracting a set of tomato farmers in Nigeria that participated in a UK DfID funded project implemented between 2013 to 2017. A multi-stage convenience sampling technique was used to collect data using structured survey questionnaire from, one hundred and twenty-six (126) smallholder tomato farmers that sold their produce to the processing plant and one hundred and twenty-one (121) smallholder tomato farmers who did not sell to the plant from the study area. Data collected was analyzed using descriptive statistical tools and Double-Difference (DD) estimator was used to assess the changes in income from before to after participating in the market linkage intervention using the M4P approach between the two groups of farmers.

Keywords

Agricultural Market Systems, Making Markets Work for the Poor (M4P), Double Difference Estimator, Farmer-processor Linkage, Nigeria

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 26. 4. 2018

Thesis defence

• Supervisor: Ing. Jiří Hejkrlík, Ph.D.

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences

Master programme / field:
Tropical Agriculture / International Development and Agricultural Economics