@article{Odhiambo:25440,
      recid = {25440},
      author = {Odhiambo, Mark O. and Oluoch-Kosura, Willis and Kibiego,  Michael B.},
      title = {Analysis of the Structure and Performance of the Beans  Marketing System in Nairobi},
      address = {2006},
      number = {1004-2016-78494},
      series = {Poster Paper},
      pages = {12},
      year = {2006},
      abstract = {Beans are widely grown as a major food crop in Eastern and  Southern Africa. It is the most important staple food crop  after maize in Kenya (ECABREN, 2000). The beans industry in  Kenya is faced with problems of shortages, seasonal supply  and price fluctuations and inadequate information on  production, marketing and consumption. These problems are  more acute in urban areas. This paper analyzes the  structure and performance of the beans marketing system in  Nairobi metropolitan area, the single most important beans  market in Kenya. Data from a sample of 102 traders  augmented by secondary data were used to analyze the  marketing system by applying descriptive statistics,  concentration ratios and co-integration models. The results  showed that the beans marketing structure approached that  of pure competition; however, lack of capital was a barrier  to entry into the wholesale and retail trade. The Johansen  likelihood-based vector autoregressive model showed that  there was no significant co-integration of the major  markets in the city possibly due to inefficient market  information flow.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/25440},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.25440},
}