Vertical coordination in high-value commodities: Implications for Smallholders

By P. Birthal, P. Joshi, A. Gulati. 2005

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Impact of Contract Farming on Income: Linking Small Farmers, Packers, and Supermarkets in China (2009, background): “For example, Birthal, Joshi, and Gulati (2005) found that the gross margins for contract dairy farmers in India were almost double those of independent dairy farmers, largely because contract growers had lower production and marketing costs.”
Diversification and Its Impact on Smallholders: Evidence from a Study on Vegetable Production (2006, unknown): “The overall profitability (including production and marketing) of smallholders in comparison to large farmers is adversely affected by the high transaction costs (Birthal et al., 2005).”
Does cooperative membership improve household welfare? Evidence from a panel data analysis of smallholder dairy farmers in Bihar, India (2018, background): “…reduction in the transaction costs of accessing inputs, information, technology, and markets, and a realization of higher prices and profits (Birthal et al., 2007, 2009, 2017; Kumar et al., 2011a; Kumar et al., 2011b; Kumar, 2010; Stockbridge et al., 2003; Berdegue, 2001; Singh and Pundir,…”
Global Sustainable Development Report 2019 (2019, unknown): “460 Birthal et al., 2005.”
Smallholder Dairy Farmers' Access to Modern Milk Marketing Chains in India (2011, background): “However, recent research has brought in another side of the argument by suggesting that the emergence of modern food supply chains has improved linkages between the buyers and poor farmers in developing countries, which has turned out to be beneficial for the smallholders (Dries et al., 2004; Minten”
Crop Diversification towards High-value Crops in India: A State Level Empirical Analysis (2015, background): “…researchers have argued that agricultural diversification can be used as an instrument to raise farm income, generate employment opportunities, alleviate poverty and for conservation of natural resources (Von Braun, 1995; Pingali and Rosegrant, 1995; Ryan and Spencer, 2001; Birthal et al., 2005).”
Value Chains of Agricultural Commodities and their Role in Food Security and Poverty Alleviation - A Synthesis (2011, background): “However, recent researches have brought in another side of the argument by suggesting that the emergence of modern food value chains has improved linkages between buyers and poor farmers in the developing countries, which have turned out to be beneficial for the smallholders (Dries et al., 2004; Min”
Contract farming and smallholder incentives to produce high quality: experimental evidence from the Vietnamese dairy sector (2013, background): “Processors and wholesalers, who are looking for new and efficient ways to source high quality raw material, have widely embraced contract farming as one approach to coordinate supply chain relations (Birthal et al., 2005; Swinnen, 2009; Schipmann and Qaim, 2011).”
Commercializing Small Farms: Reducing Transaction Costs (2005, background): “Commercialization, while leading to an increase in the diversity of marketed output at the national level, also leads to increasing regionaland farm-level specialization.”