The Quiet Revolution in Staple Food Value Chains: Enter the Dragon, the Elephant, and the Tiger

By T. Reardon, Kevin Z. Chen, B. Minten, L. Adriano. 2012

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Citations in the corpus

• Food Losses and Food Waste in China: A First Estimate (2014, background): “For example, a recent survey by Asia Development Bank found the postharvest physical wastage of potato to be only about 7% and that of rice to be only about 1-2% in some provinces of China (Reardon et al. 2012), which strongly contradicts with previous assertion of a level of over 20% (Gustavsson et”
• Contract-farming in Staple Food Chains: The Case of Rice in Benin (2017, background): “Increasing efficiency in these chains has the potential to benefit a large number of smallholder farmers; as opposed to high-value and export chains that are often exclusive and more limited in terms of the number of farmers involved (Reardon et al., 2012).”
• Global Food Security, Contributions from Sustainable Potato Agri-Food Systems (2020, background): “At the same time, producers also gained significant price advantages (Reardon et al. 2012).”
• Will digital technologies transform agriculture in developing countries (2016, unknown): “A recent study of farmers conducted in Bangladesh, China, India, and Vietnam found that 80 percent of farmers in these countries owned a mobile phone and used them to connect with agents and traders to estimate market demand and the selling price (Reardon et al 2012).”
• Agricultural innovation and inclusive value-chain development: a review (2018, background): “Therefore, improving the performance of agricultural value chains stands to benefit large numbers of people (Reardon and Timmer, 2012; Reardon et al., 2012; Aramyan et al., 2005; Lohman et al., 2004; Lambert and Pohlen, 2001; Tschirley et al., 2015).”
• Ultra‐processed products are becoming dominant in the global food system (2013, result): “Similar shifts also occurred in India and in other Asian countries such as Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan, as available income increased (35).”