Rapid transformation of food systems in developing regions: Highlighting the role of agricultural research & innovations
By T. Reardon, R. Echeverría, J. Berdegué, B. Minten, S. Liverpool-Tasie, D. Tschirley, David Zilberman. Agricultural Systems, 2019
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Abstract Developing regions' food system has transformed rapidly in the past several decades. The food system is the dendritic cluster of R&D value chains, and the value chains linking input suppliers to farmers, and farmers upstream to wholesalers and processors midstream, to retailers then consumers downstream. We analyze the transformation in terms of these value chains' structure and conduct, and the effects of changes in those on its performance in terms of impacts on consumers and farmers, as well as the efficiency of and waste in the overall chain. We highlight the role of, and implications for agricultural research, viewed broadly as farm technology as well as research pertaining to all aspects of input and output value chains.
Subfields: Business and International Management, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
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- Viewpoint: The future of work in agri-food (2020, unknown): “Even in Africa and Asia, consumers now purchase 80 percent of all food consumed, implying that food value chains provide 80 percent of all food consumed (Reardon et al., 2019).”
- Ultra‐processed foods and the nutrition transition: Global, regional and national trends, food systems transformations and political economy drivers (2020, background): “Some countries have seen the emergence of large domestic companies prior to transnational market entry, for example, IndoFoods in Indonesia and in China the state-owned China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs.(96,139) Japan's market is dominated by domestic manufacturers, with foreign companies ”