Author: Ashok K. Mishra
Nutritional Impacts of Direct Selling to Supermarkets: The Case of Farm Households in India
Abstract A growing body of literature examines the developmental impacts of smallholder participation in supermarket value chains in developing countries, yet evidence on the nutritional implications for farm households remains limited. This study investigates how direct sales to supermarkets influence household nutritional outcomes among vegetable...
Determinants and Income Effects of Small Farmers Selling to Supermarkets versus Traditional Market Channels in Four Regions of India
Abstract Read a policy brief based on this study. Using endogenous switching regressions to calculate transitional heterogeneity which we have used to build counterfactual scenarios to identify the treatment effects for both sellers to supermarkets and sellers to traditional markets, the results support neither a...