Trading Down: Africa, Value Chains And The Global Economy

By P. Gibbon, S. Ponte. 2005

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Global value chains in the agrifood sector (2006, background): “Similarly, work on agricultural commodities (see, in particular, Gibbon and Ponte, 2005) has emphasized the roles played by both international traders and commodity processors in organizing trade in commodities.”
Global Commodity Chains and the Marxian Law of Value (2010, background): “This includes activities such as design, production, marketing, distribution, support to the final consumer, and governance of the entire process (Gibbon and Ponte 2005:77).”
Voluntary standards, expert knowledge and the governance of sustainability networks (2013, unknown): “…were traditionally in charge of such regulation, for the past two to three decades private sector actors, such as branded processors, international traders and especially retailers, have played an increasingly powerful role (Clapp and Fuchs 2009; Gibbon and Ponte 2005; Oosterveer 2007).”
Labour in Global Value Chains: Work Conditions in Football Manufacturing in China, India and Pakistan (2012, background): “Downgrading involves moving into lower value-added activities, squeezing labour by providing lower wages, and failing to abide by social and environmental laws that regulate production in export-oriented industries (Gibbon and Ponte, 2005; Kaplinsky, 2005).”
The effectiveness of agricultural certification in developing countries: A systematic review (2018, background): “…mechanisms, organisation of value chains, institutional features and how they shape the dynamics of markets of agricultural products and consumer behaviour (Raynolds & Greenfield 2015; Gibbon & Ponte 2005; Muradian, & Pelupessy 2005; Nelson and Pound 2009; Byerlee and Rueda 2015; Ruben 2012).”
Power in global value chains (2019, unknown): “Diffuse power arising from social movements and collectives of actors, and the emergence of conventions in GVCs have been well documented (e.g. Bair and Palpacuer, 2015; Gibbon and Ponte, 2005), but less recognizable instances of diffuse power in GVCs can come with the sudden”
Clusters, Chains and Compliance: Corporate Social Responsibility and Governance in Football Manufacturing in South Asia (2010, background): “A core focus in the GVC literature is theorizing how global lead firms exercise power in their relationships with their suppliers (Altenburg, 2006; Gereffi, 1999; Gereffi et al., 2005; Gibbon and Ponte, 2005; Humphrey and Schmitz, 2002; Nadvi, 2008).”
Linking Up to Development? Global Value Chains and the Making of a Post-Washington Consensus (2014, background): “How a chain is governed, in turn, shapes the ability of participants to improve their position within it, chiefly the capture of greater ‘value added’ at the level of the firm and/or local economy (Dolan and Humphrey, 2000; Gereffi, 1999; Gibbon and Ponte, 2005).”
Integrating Poverty and Environmental Concerns into Value-Chain Analysis: A Conceptual Framework (2010, unknown): “Development Policy Review 28 (2) Recent literature has highlighted that other forms of ‘upgrading’ are equally important, and may combine some of the above categories, or even go beyond them: delivering larger volumes (even of lower quality), matching standards and certifications, delivering on logi”
Not by Rent Alone: Analysing the Pro-Poor Functions of Small-Scale Fisheries in Developing Countries (2010, unknown): “Of particular concern to a certain number of small-scale fisherfolk organisations and some activists and academics (for example, FAO, 2009a: 13) is the question of the capacities of small-scale fishers and traders to compete with larger operators in a global market where (eco)labels, quality standar”
Toward a Dynamic Theory of Global Production Networks (2015, background): “While some recent book-length monographs on global value chains and global production networks have a strong empirical component (Gibbon and Ponte 2005; Lane and Probert 2009; Neilson and Pritchard 2009; Posthuma and Nathan 2011; Milberg and Winkler 2013), they do not have theory development as the…”