A network approach to analysis of the performance of milk traders, producers and BDS providers in Tanzania and Uganda

摘要: Network analysis is applied to an investigation of the effectiveness pro-poor interventions in dairy industry Tanzania and Uganda. A sample milk producers traders, suppliers Business Development Services, constructed by a snowball method preserve market other linkages amongst actors. Geometric resulting networks used for simple network diagnostics which are then structure analogues. Statistical econometric examining actors’ characteristics performance way conventional actor-specific variables using information about links between actors within networks. Indications success Services support programme derived from characteristics. *: Corresponding author: Tel: + 254 20 422 3424 Email: d.baker@cgiar.org This work conducted under auspices Policy, Institutions Markets Research Programme Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, supported Tanzanian Dairy Board Ugandan Authority, as well Bill Melinda Gates Foundation-funded East Africa Daory Develpoment Project.