@article{Mason:126927,
      recid = {126927},
      author = {Mason, Nicole M. and Jayne, Thomas S. and Myers, Robert  J.},
      title = {Smallholder Behavioral Responses to Marketing Board  Activities in a Dual Channel Marketing System: The Case of  Maize in Zambia},
      address = {2012},
      number = {1007-2016-79436},
      series = {Paper},
      pages = {37},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {This paper develops a conceptual model of farmers’  production decisions in the
context of dual output  marketing channels (e.g., government and private sector)  when prices
at harvest time and the availability of one of  the channels are unknown at planting time. It
then uses the  operationalized model to estimate the marginal effects of  Food Reserve Agency
(FRA) policies on smallholder behavior  in Zambia. Results suggest that increases in the  FRA
farmgate maize price influence smallholders’ production  decisions by raising their expected
maize price.  Smallholders respond to an increase in the FRA price by  both intensifying and
extensifying their maize production.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/126927},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.126927},
}