Grain Marketing Decisions of Subsistance Farmers in Burkina Faso

Abstract

In the literature on household marketing behavior there is very little work on within the year variation of grain marketing by individual households, and in particular the effect of their other assets on the marketing of grain sales, and that subsistance farmers substitute between grain and other assets for the generation of income. The data comes from weekly budget surveys conducted during 15 months with 118 households in three villages in Manga, a surplus region of Burkina Faso (Upper Volta).Center for Research on Economic Development, University of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/100963/1/ECON407.pd