Agricultural Production and Transport Connectivity : Evidence from Mozambique

Agricultural Production and Transport Connectivity : Evidence from Mozambique

Despite the richness of the existing literature, it remains a challenge to find rigorous evidence of the impacts of transport connectivity on agricultural production. The paper aims at contributing to the prolonged debate on the transport-agricultu...

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Main Author: Iimi, Atsushi
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
Subjects:
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY
TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE
RURAL ROADS
TRANSPORT CONNECTIVITY
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/554861625229930353/Agricultural-Production-and-Transport-Connectivity-Evidence-from-Mozambique
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spelling okr-10986-359152021-07-16T05:11:21Z Agricultural Production and Transport Connectivity : Evidence from Mozambique Iimi, Atsushi AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE RURAL ROADS TRANSPORT CONNECTIVITY Despite the richness of the existing literature, it remains a challenge to find rigorous evidence of the impacts of transport connectivity on agricultural production. The paper aims at contributing to the prolonged debate on the transport-agriculture nexus in Africa, by taking advantage of the unique circumstances in Mozambique where the government intensively invested in road infrastructure during a relatively short period of time in the 2010s. With the highly disaggregated location-specific fixed-effects and instrumental variable technique used to control for the endogeneity issue, the paper shows that the improved road connectivity increased agricultural production significantly. In particular, access to domestic markets is found to be important. It is also found that agricultural production exhibits decreasing returns to scale, heavily depending on land input. 2021-07-15T13:22:51Z 2021-07-15T13:22:51Z 2021-07-02 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/554861625229930353/Agricultural-Production-and-Transport-Connectivity-Evidence-from-Mozambique http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35915 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9728 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Africa Eastern and Southern (AFE) Mozambique
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topic AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY
TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE
RURAL ROADS
TRANSPORT CONNECTIVITY
spellingShingle AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY
TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE
RURAL ROADS
TRANSPORT CONNECTIVITY
Iimi, Atsushi
Agricultural Production and Transport Connectivity : Evidence from Mozambique
geographic_facet Africa
Africa Eastern and Southern (AFE)
Mozambique
relation Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9728
description Despite the richness of the existing literature, it remains a challenge to find rigorous evidence of the impacts of transport connectivity on agricultural production. The paper aims at contributing to the prolonged debate on the transport-agriculture nexus in Africa, by taking advantage of the unique circumstances in Mozambique where the government intensively invested in road infrastructure during a relatively short period of time in the 2010s. With the highly disaggregated location-specific fixed-effects and instrumental variable technique used to control for the endogeneity issue, the paper shows that the improved road connectivity increased agricultural production significantly. In particular, access to domestic markets is found to be important. It is also found that agricultural production exhibits decreasing returns to scale, heavily depending on land input.
format Working Paper
author Iimi, Atsushi
author_facet Iimi, Atsushi
author_sort Iimi, Atsushi
title Agricultural Production and Transport Connectivity : Evidence from Mozambique
title_short Agricultural Production and Transport Connectivity : Evidence from Mozambique
title_full Agricultural Production and Transport Connectivity : Evidence from Mozambique
title_fullStr Agricultural Production and Transport Connectivity : Evidence from Mozambique
title_full_unstemmed Agricultural Production and Transport Connectivity : Evidence from Mozambique
title_sort agricultural production and transport connectivity : evidence from mozambique
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2021
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/554861625229930353/Agricultural-Production-and-Transport-Connectivity-Evidence-from-Mozambique
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35915
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