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This thesis seeks to explain constraining effects of distance to markets on agricultural smallhol... more This thesis seeks to explain constraining effects of distance to markets on agricultural smallholder’s ability to commercialise, using Zambia as a case. Despite a growing consensus that inaccessible markets constrain the development of broad-based agricultural growth, creating socio-economic regional disparities, the exact nature by which distance and market access interact with agricultural producers remains under-examined. Inspired by theories of New Economic Geography, this thesis sets out to investigate one of such constraints. Agricultural inputs are regarded as paramount for production of goods. However, a combination of distance and poor physical infrastructure is suspected to increase the costs of inputs, generating either lower net incomes or making it not feasible to acquire, thus constraining smallholders’ opportunity to commercialise and enforcing regional disparities. The inputs that have been identified in this thesis as relevant are education, capital assets, credit a...
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