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DESCRIPTION:The Moynihan Institute’s program for Trade\, Development and Po
 litical Economy welcomes Alan Spearot from UC Santa Cruz.Lack of access to
  output markets is a key barrier to productivity growth of agriculture in 
 developing countries\, in part because it reduces the profitability of inv
 estments in productivity. We conduct a field experiment with 180 maize-gro
 wing cooperatives in rural Rwanda where a treatment group received support
  from the WFP Farm to Market Alliance to form connections with processors\
 , while a control group farmed as usual. We find that the program immediat
 ely increased the probability of selling into the formal output value chai
 n\, and dramatically increased revenue by 150%-300%\, driven largely by la
 rge increases in land under cultivation and input usage.
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SUMMARY:The Value of Value Chains: An Experiment Linking Farmers' Co-ops wi
 th Maize Processors in Rwanda
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>The Moynihan Institute’s program for Trade\
 , Development and Political Economy welcomes Alan Spearot from UC Santa Cr
 uz.</p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0\, 0\, 0\, 0)\; color: inhe
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 xt-transform: inherit\; word-spacing: normal\; caret-color: auto\; white-s
 pace: inherit">Lack of access to output markets is a key barrier to produc
 tivity growth of agriculture in developing countries\, in part because it 
 reduces the profitability of investments in productivity. We conduct a fie
 ld experiment with 180 maize-growing cooperatives in rural Rwanda where a 
 treatment group received support from the WFP Farm to Market Alliance to f
 orm connections with processors\, while a control group farmed as usual. W
 e find that the program immediately increased the probability of selling i
 nto the formal output value chain\, and dramatically increased revenue by 
 150%-300%\, driven largely by large increases in land under cultivation an
 d input usage.</span></p>
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