Agrifood Grades and Standards in the Extended Mercosur: Their Role in the Changing Agrifood System

By E. Farina, T. Reardon. 2000

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Strategy and Management

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Globalization and Poverty in Senegal: A Worst Case Scenario? (2011, unknown): “Keywords: trade, FDI, poverty, vertical coordination, modern supply chains JEL: F2, J43, O12, Q12, Q17 Corresponding author: Miet.Maertens@econ.kuleuven.be 1”
What Impact Are EU Supermarket Standards Having on Developing Countries' Export of High-Value Horticultural Products? Evidence From Kenya (2010, background): “The general view in the literature is that smallholders, especially the poorest ones, are increasingly being squeezed out from high-standards export production (Barrett et al., 1999; Dolan and Hamphrey, 2000; Farina and Reardon, 2000; Reardon et al., 2003; Weatherpoon and Reardon, 2003; Jeffee, 2003”
The rise of private food quality and safety standards: Illustrations from Brazil (2001, background): “Farina and Reardon (2000) illustrate with Mercosur examples, among them several Brazilian.”
Smallholder Dairy Farmers' Access to Modern Milk Marketing Chains in India (2011, background): “Several studies have opined that the poor will suffer from this process (Elizabeth et al., 2000).”
Finding Missing Markets (and a Disturbing Epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya (2008, result): “As a result and as predicted by several authors and the Kenyan press (cf., Farina and Reardon 2000; Mungai 2004), most Kenyan exporters reduced their involvement with smallscale growers after the introduction of EurepGap (Graffman, Karehu, and MacGregor 2007).”
Governance in the Global Agro-food System: Backlighting the Role of Transnational Supermarket Chains (2005, background): “Examples of where one or both of these effects have taken place include milk production and consumption in Brazil (Farina and Reardon, 2000; Reardon and Farina, 2002), fresh fruit and vegetable products in Africa intended for export to Europe (Freidberg, 2003), and to varying degrees, fresh fruit an”
Foreign Direct Investment, Vertical Integration, and Local Suppliers: Evidence from the Polish Dairy Sector (2004, background): “The latter often cannot comply with the higher standards and grading requirements for the supplied products (Farina & Reardon, 2000; Henson, Loader, & Brouder, 2000; Reardon, Codron, Busch, Bingen, & Harris, 1999).”
Gender and Modern Supply Chains in Developing Countries (2012, background): “Other reports have argued that MSC exacerbate existing inequalities because the poorest farmers may be excluded or exploited by large, often multinational, companies dominating the chains (Key and Runsten, 1999 ; Farina and Reardon, 2000 ; Minot and Ngigi, 2004 ).”
Value Chains of Agricultural Commodities and their Role in Food Security and Poverty Alleviation - A Synthesis (2011, background): “Several studies have suggested that the poor will suffer from this process (Elizabeth et al., 2000).”
Agrifood Industry Transformation and Small Farmers in Developing Countries (2009, background): “…the sugar sector in Slovakia (Gow and Swinnen 1998), the dairy sector in Poland (Dries and Swinnen 2004), the dairy sector in Brazil and Argentina (Farina and Reardon 2000, and Gutman 2002), and the general food processing sector in India (Bhavani et al. 2006) and Latin America (Schejtman, 1998).”