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Transporting the yield: Appropriate transport for agricultural production and marketing in Sub-Saharan Africa

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The conventional approach towards agricultural transport in Sub-Saharan Africa focuses mostly on motorized transport. This approach is too narrow because it does not reflect the transport requirements and purchasing power of small-scale farmers. This paper explains why a broader approach that includes not only roads, but also paths and tracks; not only trucks but also intermediate means of transport such as donkeys, bicycles and animal carts can considerably improve agricultural transport. Even though the effects of an appropriate approach on agricultural production, marketing and income can be significant, it is more often rejected by decision-makers as primitive and backward.

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  • Niklas Sieber, 1999. "Transporting the yield: Appropriate transport for agricultural production and marketing in Sub-Saharan Africa," Transport Reviews, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(3), pages 205-220, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:transr:v:19:y:1999:i:3:p:205-220
    DOI: 10.1080/014416499295493
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    1. Monica Beuran & Marie Gachassin & Gaël Raballand, 2015. "Are There Myths on Road Impact and Transport in Sub-Saharan Africa?," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 33(5), pages 673-700, September.
    2. Raballand, Gael & Macchi, Patricia & Merotto, Dino & Petracco, Carly, 2009. "Revising the roads investment strategy in rural areas : an application for Uganda," Policy Research Working Paper Series 5036, The World Bank.
    3. William Kisaalita & Josephat Sentongo-Kibalama, 2007. "Delivery of urban transport in developing countries: the case for the motorcycle taxi service (boda-boda) operators of Kampala," Development Southern Africa, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(2), pages 345-357.

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