Facilitating Smallholder Farmers’ Market Access
In the OIC Member Countries
111
To link farmers, Jordan
invested in transportation
networks and opened
domestic carriers to
competition, in tandem
with enacting trade
reforms
looks at the results
from a review of rural
logistical systems.187 The
index provides a scaled
measure of the number of
rural people who live
within 2 kilometers of an
all-weather road as a share
of the rural population in a
sample of countries. In
Jordan, nearly 96 percent of
the population has good access to a road.
TABLE 22: LINKING FARMERS TO MARKETS: ACCESS TO ROADS IN JORDAN AND SELECTED
OIC COUNTRIES
Country Rural population share
(2004)
Rural Access Index Share of population with
poor market access
Jordan 0.18 0.79 0.04
Turkey 0.33 0.69 0.10
Malaysia 0.34 0.82 0.06
Tunisia 0.35 0.39 0.21
South Africa 0.41 0.21 0.33
Morocco 0.42 0.36 0.27
Kazakhstan 0.43 0.77 0.10
Cameroon 0.46 0.20 0.37
Gambia, The 0.47 0.77 0.11
Azerbaijan 0.49 0.67 0.16
Indonesia 0.53 0.94 0.03
Turkmenistan 0.54 0.66 0.19
Côte d'Ivoire 0.55 0.56 0.25
Egypt, Arab Republic 0.57 0.77 0.13
Senegal 0.59 0.29 0.42
Uzbekistan 0.63 0.57 0.27
Pakistan 0.65 0.61 0.25
Tajikistan 0.75 0.74 0.20
Bangladesh 0.75 0.37 0.47
Afghanistan 0.78 0.22 0.61
Nigeria (8 states) 0.80 0.47 0.42
Uganda 0.87 0.27 0.64
Source: Roberts, Shyam and Rastogi 2006.
187 Roberts, Shyam, and Rastogi (2006).
FIGURE 68: AVERAGE FARM SIZE IN JORDAN
Source: Lowder, Skoet, and Singh 2014.