Farmers, Vertical Coordination, and the Restructuring of Dairy Supply Chains in Central and Eastern Europe

By L. Dries, E. Germenji, N. Noev, Jo Swinnen. 2009

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Contract-farming in Staple Food Chains: The Case of Rice in Benin (2017, background): “Improving access to inputs and technology, and creating productivity increases are among the most documented and discussed effects of contract-farming in high-value sectors and export chains (e.g. Dries and Swinnen, 2004; Dries et al., 2009; Minten et al., 2009).”
The Economics of the Food System Revolution (2012, background): “…networks to achieve economies of coordination and scale; (b) supply chain coordination via explicit and implicit contracts (Key & Runsten 1999, Dries et al. 2009); (c) private standards of quality and safety (Reardon et al. 1999, Farina et al. 2005, Swinnen 2007); and (d) the use of modern…”
Non-Tariff Measures and Standards in Trade and Global Value Chains (2015, background): “Similar changes 23 are observed in Latin-America (Reardon and Berdegué, 2002; Berdegué et al., 2005), other African countries (Gibbon, 2003; Weatherspoon and Reardon, 2003; Unnevehr, 2000; Supervie and Vagneron, 2013), Asia (Belton et al., 2011) and Russia (Dries et al., 2009).”