Globalization, privatization, and vertical coordination in food value chains in developing and transition countries

By Jo Swinnen, M. Maertens. 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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Adoption of food safety and quality standards among Chilean raspberry producers - Do smallholders benefit? (2013, background): “Whether or not this development is a particular challenge for smallholder farmers in developing countries is controversially discussed in the literature (Boselie et al., 2003; Reardon et al., 2009; Reardon et al., 2001; Swinnen and Maertens, 2007).”
Viewpoint: The future of work in agri-food (2020, neutral): “, the rise of modern retail food stores) has been more intense and rapid than in other developing regions, driven in part by private vertical coordination that has generated economic growth through the introduction of contracts, the creation of new credit and input markets, and tighter linkages betw”
Globalization and Poverty in Senegal: A Worst Case Scenario? (2011, background): “productivity and ultimately higher incomes (e.g. Dries and Swinnen, 2004; Gulati et al., 2007; Swinnen and Maertens, 2007; Minten et al., 2009).”
Contract-farming in Staple Food Chains: The Case of Rice in Benin (2017, background): “In the recent literature, contract-farming is put forward as an institutional innovation that can reduce transaction costs in food supply chains and solve market imperfections in linking smallholder farmers to markets (Key and Runsten, 1999; Oya, 2012; Swinnen and Maertens, 2007).”
Non-Tariff Measures and Standards in Trade and Global Value Chains (2015, methodology): “The various measures are simple frequency of NTMs by sector, frequency ratios for product subcategories subject to at least one NTM within a more aggregate category of goods; and coverage ratio computed using the value of imports of products (within a broader category) affected by a NTM, and…”
The role of agriculture in economic development (2007, background): “25 (Umali-Deininger and Sur, 2006) 26 (Swinnen and Maertens, 2006) explain that vertical coordination can take various forms, which can be thought of as institutional arrangements varying between the two extremes of spot markets exchanges (no coordination) to full”
Limitations of Contract Farming as a Pro-poor Strategy: The Case of Maize Outgrower Schemes in Upper West Ghana (2018, background): “…2012; Miyata and Minot 2009; Wang et al. 2014; Reardon et al. 2009; Simmons, Winters, and Patrick 2005; Singh 2002; Warning and Key 2002; Oya 2012), and there is ongoing debate about CFAs’ role in rural economic growth and poverty reduction (Barrett et al. 2012; Swinnen and Maertens 2007).”
Trade, Standards, and Poverty: Evidence from Senegal (2009, background): “Third, FFV exports are increasingly confronted with tightening food standards – arising from public legislation as well as from private multinational companies who increasingly dominate world trade (Maertens and Swinnen, 2007; Reardon and Berdegué, 2002).”
Small Farmers and Big Retail: trade-offs of supplying supermarkets in Nicaragua (2012, background): “…does not often empirically test for increased farmer mean profit or decreased marketing risk under contractual relationship with a supermarket (a gap in the literature noted by Boselie et al., 2003; Kirsten & Sartorius, 2002; Neven & Reardon, 2008; Swinnen, 2007; Swinnen & Maertens, 2007).”
Market inefficiencies and the adoption of agricultural technologies in developing countries 1 (2013, background): “positively associated with tied credit, technical assistance, and training provided by supermarkets, and other downstream purchasers (Swinnen and Maertens 2007).”
Gender and Modern Supply Chains in Developing Countries (2012, background): “There are large variations in the degree of supply base consolidation, the extent of agroindustrialisation, the level of vertical coordination and the occurrence of market interlinking across countries and sectors (Swinnen and Maertens, 2007).”
Are middlemen facilitators or barriers to improve smallholders' welfare in rural economies? Empirical evidence from Ethiopia (2016, background): “Food value chains in developing economies are experiencing structural changes due to the rapid expansion of supermarkets and the increasingly strict quality and safety requirements of domestic and foreign customers (Henson and Jaffee, 2008; Swinnen and Maertens, 2007).”