IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/isbchp/978-81-322-2476-1_5.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Supermarket Growth and Rural Welfare: Evidence from Kenya

In: Organised Retailing and Agri-Business

Author

Listed:
  • Elizaphan James O. Rao

    (International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI))

  • Matin Qaim

    (Georg-August-University of Goettingen)

Abstract

The role of supermarkets in food retailing is rapidly growing in many developing countries. In the early stages of growth, supermarkets primarily concentrate on selling processed foods, but over time they also start dealing with fresh products, including fruits and vegetables. This chapter presents findings from a study of smallholder farmers in Kenya who supply vegetables to different market outlets. The findings show that participation in supermarket supply chains increases household income and reduces poverty. Supplying to supermarkets increases farm productivity and causes higher labor demand. Positive employment effects are shown to be especially pronounced for female rural laborers. However, the technical requirements imposed by supermarkets present entry barriers to these emerging supply chains, which may have to be addressed through institutional support.

Suggested Citation

  • Elizaphan James O. Rao & Matin Qaim, 2016. "Supermarket Growth and Rural Welfare: Evidence from Kenya," India Studies in Business and Economics, in: N. Chandrasekhara Rao & R. Radhakrishna & Ram Kumar Mishra & Venkata Reddy Kata (ed.), Organised Retailing and Agri-Business, edition 1, chapter 5, pages 81-97, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:isbchp:978-81-322-2476-1_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-2476-1_5
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Giger, Markus & Mutea, Emily & Kiteme, Boniface & Eckert, Sandra & Anseeuw, Ward & Zaehringer, Julie G., 2020. "Large agricultural investments in Kenya’s Nanyuki Area: Inventory and analysis of business models," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 99(C).

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:isbchp:978-81-322-2476-1_5. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.