The hidden middle: the quiet revolution in the midstream of agrifood value chains in developing countries

By T. Reardon. 2015

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Subfields: Business and International Management, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Strategy and Management

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Viewpoint: The future of work in agri-food (2020, unknown): “…develop, processing, logistics, and wholesale operations (which account for 30% to 40% of the value added in food chains) become more consolidated, incorporating advanced technologies in order to reduce costs and ensure timely availability of quality goods (Reardon et al., 2012; Reardon, 2015).”
Future urban land expansion and implications for global croplands (2016, background): “The transformation of food supply chains around evolving cities, for example, offers ample nonfarm employment opportunities along the food chain— in processing, logistics, and wholesale (42).”
Rapid transformation of food systems in developing regions: Highlighting the role of agricultural research & innovations (2019, background): “Even horticulture products and chicken and milk are increasingly produced far from cities as processing - such as vegetable freezing and ultra-high temperature milk processing - are located far from cities where production costs are lower (Reardon, 2015).”
Africa's changing farm size distribution patterns: the rise of medium-scale farms (2016, background): “Meanwhile, the hinterlands remain semi-subsistence and small-scale until the spread of urbanization and market connectivity eventually pulls them into similar commercialization processes (Masters et al., 2013; Reardon, 2015).”
Tapping the economic and nutritional power of vegetables (2017, background): “This mid-stream segment of vegetable value chains, what Reardon (2015) coined as the “hiddenmiddle”, is exceedingly important and is undergoing rapid change in many middle-income countries.”
Africa’s Unfolding Economic Transformation (2018, background): “The sheer volume of food needed to support Africa’s rapidly growing cities is creating major new opportunities for not only farmers, but for small- and medium-scale trading and processing enterprises within food value chains (Reardon, 2015).”
Global urbanization and food production in direct competition for land: Leverage places to mitigate impacts on SDG2 and on the Earth System (2019, background): “If performed fairly and on functioning markets, food supply chains benefit everyone involved in the food value chain, from the farm sector through the increasingly productive midstream segment to trade (see Reardon, 2015).”