Kenyan Supermarkets, Emerging Middle-Class Horticultural Farmers, and Employment Impacts on the Rural Poor

By D. Neven, M. Odera, T. Reardon, Honglin Wang. 2009

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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Plantations, Contract Farming and Commercial Farming Areas in Africa: A Comparative Review (2013, background): “One body of literature argues that innovative medium-scale farmers can help to diffuse modern farming practices in an area (Neven et al. 2009).”
Gender and Modern Supply Chains in Developing Countries (2012, background): “It has been demonstrated in the literature that poorer households are often excluded from high-value contract-farming for lack of access to sufficient productive resources (Maertens and Swinnen, 2009; Neven et al., 2009).”
Adoption of food safety and quality standards among Chilean raspberry producers - Do smallholders benefit? (2013, background): “, 2003) and some African countries including Kenya (Neven and Reardon, 2004; Neven et al., 2009).”
Impacts of supermarkets on farm household nutrition in Kenya (2015, background): “, 2009; Rao and Qaim, 2011; Michelson, 2013), and labor markets (Neven et al., 2009; Rao and Qaim, 2013).”
Are middlemen facilitators or barriers to improve smallholders' welfare in rural economies? Empirical evidence from Ethiopia (2016, background): “Whether they are successful depends to a large extent on the way production and distribution is coordinated along the food chain (Hern andez et al., 2007; Neven et al., 2009).”
Non-Tariff Measures and Standards in Trade and Global Value Chains (2015, background): “…to high standard value chains are often those who are somewhat larger, more capitalized and more commercially oriented, as documented by Asfaw et al. (2010b), Handschuch et al. (2013), Hernandez et al. (2007), Kersting and Wollni (2012), Maertens and Swinnen (2009), and Neven et al. (2009).”
Linking Smallholders to Markets: Determinants and Impacts of Farmer Collective Action in Kenya (2012, background): “Despite reported trends on the transformation of procurement systems and tighter vertical integration (Reardon et al. 2009; Neven et al. 2009), Kenyan supermarkets still largely source bananas from wholesalers.”
Structural transformation or elite land capture? The growth of “emergent” farmers in Zambia (2014, background): “Yet in Africa there is scant evidence on how commercialization and land consolidation occurs over time due to the limited and non-random nature of the studies to draw upon (e.g., Muyanga et al., 2013; Chapoto et al., 2013; Neven et al., 2009; Poulton et al., 2008).”
Trade-offs between environment and livelihoods: Bridging the global land use and food security discussions (2017, unknown): “…to domestic and international retail markets, as well as value chains interventions such as certification schemes can also contribute to increase the share of added value that reaches farmers and wage laborers or to other benefits (Neven et al. 2009, Maertens et al. 2009, Smart and Hanlon 2014).”
Small Farmers, NGOs, and a Walmart World: Welfare Effects of Supermarkets Operating in Nicaragua (2013, unknown): “…2012; Wang et al. 2009; Miyata, Minot, and Hu 2009) though evidence is mounting that participation may be available largely to those who are already equipped with irrigation or cooperative membership (Hernández, Reardon, and Berdegué 2007; Neven et al. 2009; Balsevich, Reardon, and Berdegue 2005).”