Transformation of markets for agricultural output in developing countries since 1950: How has thinking changed?

By T. Reardon, C. Timmer. 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Soil Science

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Institutional Innovation and Policy Support to Facilitate Small-Scale Farming Transformation in China (2016, background): “In addition, agrifood markets and value chains have also experienced rapidly transformation since the 1990s (Reardon and Timmer, 2007).”
Market inefficiencies and the adoption of agricultural technologies in developing countries 1 (2013, background): “Smallholders cooperatives and associations allow supermarkets and exporters to contract with a single entity rather than many smallholders, which can reduce the cost of including poor farmers in modern supply chains (Reardon and Timmer 2007).”
Livestock sector development for poverty reduction: an economic and policy perspective. Livestock's many virtues. (2012, background): “For distribution, the move towards more industrialized agricultural production systems in the last decade is associated with the robust expansion of modern supermarket and fast food restaurant retailing in developing countries (Reardon and Timmer, 2005).”
Five inter-linked transformations in the Asian agrifood economy: Food security implications (2014, background): “Reardon and Timmer (2007) emphasize that there have been two “broad phases” of agrifood industry transformation over the past 50 years (in both Asia and Africa): “pre-liberalization/preglobalization” (mainly 1960s-mid 1980s) and “liberalization/ globalization” (mainly mid-1980s to now).”
The Rise of a Middle Class in East and Southern Africa: Implications for Food System Transformation (2014, methodology): “Supermarket development in Africa is in its very early stages, and there is controversy about how quickly they will spread (Humphrey 2007; Minten 2008; Reardon and Timmer 2007, 2012; Traill 2006).”
Agrifood Industry Transformation and Small Farmers in Developing Countries (2009, background): “As supermarkets and fast-food chains spread, the segments underwent consolidation and multinationalization (Reardon et al. 2003; Reardon and Timmer 2007).”
Determinant factors of livelihood diversification: Evidence from Ethiopia (2017, background): “Thirdly, persistent low agricultural productivity coupled with chronic food insecurity and severe poverty characterises the smallholder rural economy in SSA (Loison & Loison, 2016; Reardon & Timmer, 2007).”
Impacts of supermarkets on farm household nutrition in Kenya (2015, background): “In the recent past, many developing countries have experienced a profound food system transformation with a rapid growth of supermarkets (Reardon and Timmer, 2007; Neven et al., 2009).”