Agroindustrialization, globalization, and international development An overview of issues, patterns, and determinants

By T. Reardon, Christopher B. Barrett. 2000

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This paper offers an overview for a special issue on agroindustrialization, globalization, and international development. It sets out a conceptual framework for understanding the links among these three broad phenomena and then discusses emerging issues and evidence concerning the factors conditioning agroindustrialization in developing countries and the subsequent effects on employment, poverty, and the natural environment. We conclude with a research agenda.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Strategy and Management

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An analysis of institutional and technical factors influencing agricultural marketing amongst smallholder farmers in the Kat River Valley, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa (2009, background): “In an effort to withstand the market pressures, agricultural markets are now transforming to a vertically coordinated structure ( Reardon and Barrett, 2000 ).”
Commercializing Small Farms: Reducing Transaction Costs (2005, background): “Risk and uncertainty play a pivotal role in explaining the household decision to enter commercial markets.”
Food value chain transformations in developing countries: Selected hypotheses on nutritional implications (2013, background): “In general, modern FVC participants coordinate the supply chain through formal, well documented contractual arrangements that feature predetermined product standards, volume requirements, and price levels (Reardon and Barrett, 2000).”
Agricultural cooperatives II: Can they facilitate access of small-scale farmers in South Africa to input and product markets? (2007, background): “Reardon and Barrett (2000) argue that the increasing importance and changing nature of food grades and standards is a reason for the rise of cooperatives and contract farming in developing countries, particularly for perishables such as horticultural, meat, dairy and fish products.”
Analysis of the Factors Influencing Market Participation among Smallholder Rice Farmers in Magway Region, Central Dry Zone of Myanmar (2018, background): “Market participation of farmers is both a cause and a consequence of economic development [1,2].”
Small Farmers and Big Retail: trade-offs of supplying supermarkets in Nicaragua (2012, background): “Considerable research has anticipated (Barrett and Reardon, 2000; Blandon et al., 2009; Key and Runsten, 1999; Kirsten and Sartorius, 2002; Gibbon, 2003) and identified (Dolan and Humphrey, 2000; Boselie et al.”
Agri-Food Markets towards Sustainable Patterns (2020, background): “Global drivers have created certain meta-trends that have significantly affected the agri-food sector worldwide [30,31] resulting in implications in terms of the functioning and structure of agri-food markets as well as their contribution to food and nutrition security and agri-food systems sustaina”
Agrifood Industry Transformation and Small Farmers in Developing Countries (2009, background): “…specialization/differentiation, and organizational and institutional change via the rise of vertical coordination (via contracts and market linkage arrangements) and private grades and standards (Reardon et al. 1999, Reardon and Barrett, 2000, Reardon and Timmer, 2007, Swinnen 2007).”
Small Farmers, NGOs, and a Walmart World: Welfare Effects of Supermarkets Operating in Nicaragua (2013, positive): “…focused on the correlates of participation at the household level, and on whether there has been exclusion based on farm size or non-land assets (Barrett and Reardon 2000; Blandon, Henson, and Islam 2009; Key and Runsten 1999; Kirsten and Sartorius 2002; Gibbon 2003; Dolan and Humphrey 2000;…”