Forthcoming, 2003. American Journal of Agricultural Economics ,8 5 (5), December. Supermarkets and Produce Quality and Safety Standards in Latin America

By F. Balsevich, J. Berdegué, L. Flores, D. Mainville, Thomas Reardon, Lawrence Busch, L. Unnevehr. 2003

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• The Rapid Rise of Supermarkets in Developing Countries: Induced Organizational, Institutional, and Technological Change in Agrifood Systems (2004, unknown): “Reardon et al. (2003) for overall trends, and also from other papers such as for Latin America, Reardon and Berdegue 2002, Balsevich et al. 2003, and Berdegue et al. 2004, for Central and Eastern Europe, Dries et al. 2004, for China, Hu et al. 2004, and for Africa, Weatherspoon and Reardon 2003 an”
• The strategic use of private quality standards in food supply chains (2012, unknown): “(2)There is also a strong debate on whether increasing quality requirements by large retailers may impose entry barriers for suppliers in developing countries, in particular for small-scale producers (e.g., OECD 2007, 2006; EC 2006; García Martinez and Poole 2004; Balsevich et al. 2003; Boselie et a”
• Technology, transport, globalization and the nutrition transition food policy (2006, unknown): “For example, supermarkets (a) were instrumental in the development of UHT ultra heat treatment, milk giving it a long shelf life and providing a safe source of milk for all income groups and (b) were key players in establishing food safety standards (Balsevich et al., 2003).”
• The rise of supermarkets and changing expenditure patterns of poor rural households case study in the Transkei area, South Africa (2005, unknown): “The importance of supermarkets in developing countries has been a matter of increasing study and comments (see inter alias Balsevich et al. (2003), Boselie et al. (2003), Cacho (2003), IFPRI (2003), Reardon et al. (2003a,b) and Weatherspoon and Reardon (2003)).”
• Traditional vs. Modern Food Systems? Insights from Vegetable Supply Chains to Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) (2006, unknown): “Food marketing research in developing countries has shifted in recent years from a bias towards the export function in favour of research into local markets and the increasing market share of modern distribution outlets (Balsevich et al., 2003).”
• Global nutrition dynamics: the world is shifting rapidly toward a diet linked with noncommunicable diseases. (2006, unknown): “For example, supermarkets were 1) instrumental in the development of ultraheat treatment, high-temperature pasteurized milk, which gives milk a long shelf life and provides a safe source of milk for all income groups, and 2) were key players in establishing food safety standards (57).”
• Agricultural mechanization: adoption patterns and economic impact (2007, unknown): “Also in Latin America, vertical integration of the post-harvest processing industry is leading to the replacement of small village-based post-harvest facilities with large-scale processing plants [Balsevich et al. (2003)]. Sub-Saharan Africa continues to have very low levels of mechanization and ava”
• Mainstreaming Gender Sensitivity in Cash Crop Market Supply Chains (2014, unknown): “Warning, Key and Soo Hoo (2005) suggest there is less access for smaller farmers to contracts, as do Balsevich et al. (2003) who found that in Costa Rica 80 percent of the volume of vertical arrangements comes from medium and large-scale producers and packers (p.”