Quality-Differentiated Pricing Among Agricultural Traders
Key Takeaways: • QDP strengthens agricultural market systems by creating incentives to improve crop quality, leading to increased revenue. • Interventions to improve crop quality and formalize price setting are likely to help institutionalize QDP. • QDP should be further investigated in Uganda t...
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| author | Picchione, Katherine Goentzel, Jarrod Russell, Timothy Gralla, Erica |
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| description | Key Takeaways:
• QDP strengthens agricultural market systems by creating incentives to improve crop quality, leading to
increased revenue.
• Interventions to improve crop quality and formalize price setting are likely to help institutionalize QDP.
• QDP should be further investigated in Uganda to understand its extent and drivers.
• Market facilitation projects should encourage reinforcing behaviors that propagate QDP throughout the value
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1427622022-05-27T22:59:46Z Quality-Differentiated Pricing Among Agricultural Traders Picchione, Katherine Goentzel, Jarrod Russell, Timothy Gralla, Erica USAID System Mapping Uganda Key Takeaways: • QDP strengthens agricultural market systems by creating incentives to improve crop quality, leading to increased revenue. • Interventions to improve crop quality and formalize price setting are likely to help institutionalize QDP. • QDP should be further investigated in Uganda to understand its extent and drivers. • Market facilitation projects should encourage reinforcing behaviors that propagate QDP throughout the value chain. The USAID Uganda Feed the Future Value Chain (FTF-VC) project uses a market facilitation approach to strengthen the value chains that serve smallholder farmers in Uganda. One of the goals is to improve profitability for farmers and other value chain actors by enabling improved quality and prices throughout the value chain. In a system where actors value quality and are willing to pay more for better products, farmers have the incentive to engage in practices to improve crop quality. To achieve a market for quality products, actors throughout the supply chain should offer and have access to quality-differentiated pricing (QDP). This study addresses a gap in understanding the factors that affect an actor’s ability to access and incentives to extend QDP. USAID 2022-05-26T01:28:50Z 2022-05-26T01:28:50Z 2022-05-26 Technical Report https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142762 en_US Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/ application/pdf application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | USAID System Mapping Uganda Picchione, Katherine Goentzel, Jarrod Russell, Timothy Gralla, Erica Quality-Differentiated Pricing Among Agricultural Traders |
| title | Quality-Differentiated Pricing Among Agricultural Traders |
| title_full | Quality-Differentiated Pricing Among Agricultural Traders |
| title_fullStr | Quality-Differentiated Pricing Among Agricultural Traders |
| title_full_unstemmed | Quality-Differentiated Pricing Among Agricultural Traders |
| title_short | Quality-Differentiated Pricing Among Agricultural Traders |
| title_sort | quality differentiated pricing among agricultural traders |
| topic | USAID System Mapping Uganda |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142762 |
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