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Is the local wheat market a ‘market for lemons’? Certifying the supply of individual wheat farmers in Ethiopia
[The impact of the use of new technologies on farmers’ wheat yield in Ethiopia: evidence from a randomized control trial]

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  • Banawe Plambou Anissa
  • Gashaw Abate
  • Tanguy Bernard
  • Erwin Bulte

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Bulking and mixing of smallholder supply dilutes incentives to supply high quality. We introduce wheat ‘grading and certification shops’ in Ethiopia and use an auction design to gauge willingness-to-pay (WTP) for certification. Bids correlate positively with wheat quality, and ex ante notification of the opportunity of certification improves wheat quality. These findings suggest that local wheat markets resemble a ‘market for lemons’, crippled by asymmetric information. However, aggregate WTP for grading and certification services does not re-coup the sum of fixed, flow and variable costs associated with running a single certification shop.

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  • Banawe Plambou Anissa & Gashaw Abate & Tanguy Bernard & Erwin Bulte, 2021. "Is the local wheat market a ‘market for lemons’? Certifying the supply of individual wheat farmers in Ethiopia [The impact of the use of new technologies on farmers’ wheat yield in Ethiopia: eviden," European Review of Agricultural Economics, Oxford University Press and the European Agricultural and Applied Economics Publications Foundation, vol. 48(5), pages 1162-1186.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:erevae:v:48:y:2021:i:5:p:1162-1186.
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    1. Thomas Reardon & Lenis Saweda O. Liverpool-Tasie & Bart Minten, 2021. "Quiet Revolution by SMEs in the midstream of value chains in developing regions: wholesale markets, wholesalers, logistics, and processing," Food Security: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food, Springer;The International Society for Plant Pathology, vol. 13(6), pages 1577-1594, December.
    2. Sogn-Grundvåg, Geir & Zhang, Dengjun, 2023. "Commodities failing in auctions: The story of unsold cod in Norway," Journal of Commodity Markets, Elsevier, vol. 29(C).
    3. Jianyu Yu & Olivier Bonroy & Zohra Bouamra‐Mechemache, 2023. "Quality and quantity incentives under downstream contracts: A role for agricultural cooperatives?," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 105(4), pages 1176-1196, August.

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