Consumption smoothing and price enhancement motives for grain storage: empirical perspectives from rural Ethiopia

Abstract Consumption smoothing and temporal price arbitrage are the two main economic motives for grain storage in semi-subsistence economies. Nonetheless, little has been documented on the determinants of households’ grain storage behavior. Using a rich panel data from maize producing households in...

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Main Authors: Wondimagegn Tesfaye, Gebrelibanos Gebremariam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2020-10-01
Series:Agricultural and Food Economics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40100-020-00169-x