The Rise of Supermarkets in Africa, Asia, and Latin America

By T. Reardon, C. Timmer, Christopher B. Barrett, J. Berdegué. 2003

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Plant Science, Strategy and Management

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Adoption of food safety and quality standards among Chilean raspberry producers - Do smallholders benefit? (2013, background): “In recent years, food quality and safety standards have also become more important in the domestic markets of many non-OECD countries in Africa, Latin America, and East Asia due to the rapid expansion of modern supermarket chains in these countries (Berdegué et al., 2005; Neven and Reardon, 2004; Re”
Food consumption trends and drivers (2010, background): “In 2000, supermarkets had approximately 60 per cent on average of the national retail sectors in South America and Mexico, a fourfold increase in a decade (Reardon et al. 2003).”
Five inter-linked transformations in the Asian agrifood economy: Food security implications (2014, background): “In the 1990s and 2000s the “take-off” of private-sector modern retail occurred—what has become known as the “supermarket revolution” (Reardon et al., 2003).”
Small Farmers and Big Retail: trade-offs of supplying supermarkets in Nicaragua (2012, background): “, 2009; Key and Runsten, 1999; Kirsten and Sartorius, 2002; Gibbon, 2003) and identified (Dolan and Humphrey, 2000; Boselie et al., 2003; Reardon et al., 2003) the exclusion of small farmers from supermarket supply chains.”
Agrifood Industry Transformation and Small Farmers in Developing Countries (2009, methodology): “(i) Heuristic Model of Company Decision to Modernize Procurement and Farmer to Supply the Modern Channel We draw on elements of Key and Runsten (1999), Reardon et al. (2003) and Swinnen and Vandeplas (2007) to outline the heuristic model.”
The Emergence of Supermarkets with Chinese Characteristics: Challenges and Opportunities for China's Agricultural Development (2004, neutral): “Second, there is evidence of incipient consolidation and multinationalisation of the supermarket sector in China, as in other developing regions in the second half of the 1990s and into the 2000s (Reardon et al., 2003).”
Climate Change, Global Food Security, and the U.S. Food System (2015, background): “This sector is undergoing expansion in the form of supermarkets in much of the developing world, alongside more traditional systems, driving an evolution in procurement systems to source foods from long distances (Reardon et al. 2003).”
Ultra‐processed foods and the nutrition transition: Global, regional and national trends, food systems transformations and political economy drivers (2020, background): “market distribution shares in categories such as grains, noodles and dairy products have increased more rapidly than in fresh food categories.(158) This reflects not only the greater economies of scale in sourcing processed foods(91,156) but also because ‘cultures of consumption’ change over time, f”
Global nutrition dynamics: the world is shifting rapidly toward a diet linked with noncommunicable diseases. (2006, background): “In one decade, the role of supermarkets in Latin America has expanded by an amount equivalent to that which occurred over about a half century in the United States (54).”
The Future of Small Farms (2010, background): “Supermarkets, for example, are playing an increasingly dominant role in controlling access to retail markets (Reardon et al. 2003), and direct links to exporters are often essential for accessing highvalue export markets.”
Balancing multiple interests: embedding innovation intermediation in the agricultural knowledge infrastructure (2008, background): “, knowledge or expertise about a e or functional domain) supplying intermediate products at are knowledge based (Den Hertog, 2000; Müller and competitive global markets (Zilbermann et al., 1998; Reardon et al., 2003), these ‘innovation intermediaries’ have emerged to assist agricultural entrepreneur”