Open AccessDairy farm households, processor linkages and household income: the case of dairy hub linkages in East Africa
Author(s) -
E.J.O. Rao,
Immaculate Omondi,
Aziz Karimov,
Isabelle Baltenweck
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the international food and agribusiness management review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.474
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1559-2448
pISSN - 1096-7508
DOI - 10.22434/ifamr2014.0177
Subject(s) - safeguarding , linkage (software) , business , dairy industry , revenue , agricultural economics , household income , economics , geography , finance , gene , biochemistry , archaeology , chemistry , medicine , food science , nursing
In this study we have analysed the effects of household linkages to milk market via dairy hubs currently implemented under the East African Dairy Development project. Our analyses show that participation in dairy hubs increases dairy revenues by USD 1,022 on average. Impacts are higher for households participating in hubs supplying exclusively to processors (USD 1,673) relative to ones supplying hubs that pursue mixed-linkage approach. Moreover, participation in dairy hubs also yields significant effect on household income. Appropriate measures should be undertaken to widen the reach of such processor linkages while also safeguarding existing gains, more so as the processing sector becomes more concentrated.
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