The Emergence of Supermarkets with Chinese Characteristics: Challenges and Opportunities for China's Agricultural Development

By D. Hu, T. Reardon, Scott Rozelle, Peter Timmer, Honglin Wang. 2004

365 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Business and International Management, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science

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In Business and International Management

1. Barry M. Popkin
2. T. Reardon
3. Jo Swinnen
4. J. Hellin
5. C. Timmer
6. J. Berdegué
7. A. Dorward
8. S. Henson

In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. Jo Swinnen
2. T. Reardon
3. Barry M. Popkin
4. A. Dorward
5. C. Poulton
6. J. Hellin
7. C. Timmer
8. Jikun Huang

In Soil Science

1. T. Reardon
2. Jikun Huang
3. A. Dorward
4. Jo Swinnen
5. C. Poulton
6. Scott Rozelle
7. C. Timmer
8. Peter Timmer

Citations in the corpus

• Future urban land expansion and implications for global croplands (2016, background): “Large urban areas have seen a growth in supermarkets replacing locally owned or small-scale food retail stores (34, 35).”
• The Rapid Rise of Supermarkets in Developing Countries: Induced Organizational, Institutional, and Technological Change in Agrifood Systems (2004, background): “Regional chains, such as China Resources Enterprises (CRE) of Hong Kong – with Vanguard stores in southern China, are also centralizing their procurement systems.”
• Farmer organization, collective action and market access in Meso-America: (2009, background): “This is particularly the case with changes in the retail system due, partly, to the growth and increasing concentration of supermarkets (Reardon 2005; Hu et al. 2004; Reardon and Berdegué 2002).”
• The rise of supermarkets and their development implications: International experience relevant for India (2008, background): “The Metro operation in Shanghai provides required market information (prices, volumes, packaging, and product types) and receives the product in its distribution center there, as well as at its planned platform at a wholesale market.”
• The Economics of the Food System Revolution (2012, background): “F or p er so na l u se o nl y. Russia, see Dries & Reardon 2005, and for dry foods in China, see Hu et al. 2004).”
• Growth in high-value agriculture in Asia and the emergence of vertical links with farmers. (2007, background): “By 2002, there were 53,000 supermarkets and convenience stores ( Hu et al, 2004 ).”
• The Rapid Rise of Supermarkets (2006, neutral): “In fact the only countries where its independent effects are projected to be important are China, where urbanisation growth has slightly more impact than income growth; India, Pakistan and Bangladesh (not evident from the table because of rounding), though in absolute terms the effects remain small;”
• Agriculture and Pro-Poor Growth: An Asian Perspective (2005, background): “…al. 2004) Second, even in poorer developing countries a supermarket revolution is transforming food retail markets, and the supply chains that provision them, at a faster pace than anyone imagined at the turn of the millennium (Reardon et al. 2003; Hu et al. 2004; Reardon and Timmer, forthcoming).”
• Modeling heterogeneity in consumer preferences for select food safety attributes in China (2011, neutral): “Hu et al. (2004) provides a thorough”
• The Future of Small Farms: New Directions for Services, Institutions and Intermediation (2010, background): “With regard to different commodity groups, it is a well documented phenomenon (e.g. Reardon and Berdegue 2002; Reardon et al. 2003; Hu et al. 2004; Reardon and Timmer 2005) that supermarket penetration into the market for fresh fruit and vegetables is slower than penetration into the market for…”
• The Future of Small Farms (2010, background): “We also observe similar prices for commodity vegetables between supermarkets and wetmarkets in several large cities in China (Hu et al. 2004), Mexico City (Reardon et al.”