Assessing the role of market integration in the consumption of traditional foods in Benin: a joint price instability coefficient and diet composition approach

Agricultural and Food Economics

Table 1 Description of market clusters in the study area

Type of market	Definition	Allada-Bohicon	Toffo-Bohicon
Primary	Market where producers sell directly their produce to small-scale assemblers and village retailers	Avakpa	Sey
Rural assembly	District-level market that ensures produce assembly from several village/primary markets for rural semi-wholesalers	Sekou	Sèhouè
Rural consumer	District-level retail market	Allada-centre	Houègbo^a
Regional	Semi-urban market that gathers produce from assembly markets for urban wholesalers	Bohicon	Bohicon^b

^aAlso plays the role of rural assembly market, thanks to its historic position of embedding a railway station
^bAlso embeds a railway station. It is a semi-urban consumer market