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| Echanove, Flavia; Reardon, Thomas. |
| This report is an output of the 2005/06 project "Supermarkets and Agricultural Development in Mexico" funded by USAID via USDA, implemented by Michigan State University, directed by Thomas Reardon. One component of the project involves analysis of the participation of wholesalers in the main wholesale market of Mexico City (the Ceda) in the marketing channels of supermarkets in Mexico. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Marketing. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11586 |
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| Reardon, Thomas; Codron, Jean-Marie; Busch, Lawrence; Bingen, R. James; Harris, Craig. |
| The role of G&S has shifted from a technical instrument to reduce transaction costs in homogeneous commodity markets to a strategic instrument of competition in differentiated product markets. The nature of G&S has shifted from performance (realized characteristics of the product) to process standards. In developing countries, these changes have tended to exclude small firms and farms from participating in market growth, because of the implied investments. The three strategic responses to G&S change by agribusiness firms and farms include: (1) by large firms and multinationals, to create private G&S and private certification, labeling, and branding systems; (2) by medium-large domestic firms, to lobby governments to adopt public G&S... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/34227 |
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| Balsevich, Fernando; Berdegue, Julio A.; Reardon, Thomas. |
| Based on a survey of 145 tomato farmers and interviews with supermarket chains, NGOs, wholesalers, and farmer organizations in 2004, this paper examines the determinants and effects of farmers' participation in supermarket channels, with and without assistance from NGOs in "business linkage" programs. It finds that absent that assistance, the farmers that work with supermarket chains tend to be the "upper tier" of small farmers, better capitalized with various assets. The smaller and less-capitalized farmers that work with supermarkets tend to do so in association with NGO assistance. Despite higher input expenditures and entry requirements, farmers in the supermarket chain earn more. The paper discusses the issue of whether this development program... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Marketing. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11479 |
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| Reardon, Thomas; Berdegue, Julio A.; Lundy, Mark; Schutz, Paul; Balsevich, Fernando; Hernandez, Ricardo; Perez, Edwin; Jano, Pilar; Wang, Honglin. |
| This document presents a research method to analyze the access of small and medium farmers to the supermarket market, and the effect of such access on the producers' decisions and net incomes. The method was developed for and used in a study carried out in 2004 in three Central American countries. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Labor and Human Capital; Marketing. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11818 |
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| Kelly, Valerie A.; Hopkins, Jane; Reardon, Thomas; Crawford, Eric W.. |
| A wide variety of multilateral and bilateral agencies, private sector firms, and African governments have a need for high quality, reliable data on agricultural productivity. This paper identifies numerous situations where poor data lead to incorrect estimates of African land and labor productivity. The paper argues that better coordination of macro, meso, and micro data collection, reporting, and analysis efforts can lower costs and improve our ability to monitor trends and to quantify determinants of agricultural productivity. Seven key points are made in the discussion: (1) Missing or poorly measured variables used in the numerator (output) or denominator (land and labor, for example) are biasing productivity ratios; (2) In most cases, these errors... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Productivity Analysis; Downloads July 2008 - July 2009: 11. |
| Ano: 1995 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54055 |
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| Wang, Honglin; Dong, Xiaoxia; Huang, Jikun; Rozelle, Scott; Reardon, Thomas. |
| The supermarket revolution has arrived in China and is spreading as fast as or faster than anywhere in the world. As the demand for vegetables, fruit, nuts and other high valued products have risen, urban retailers are finding new venues seized on niche and today have over $55 billion in sales, more than a third of the urban food market. However, the experience of many developing countries suggests that there could be serious distributional impacts of the rising of supermarkets. There is concern among policy makers and academics that poor, small farmers might be excluded from market. The main goal of our paper is to understand what types of farmers have been able to participate in the horticultural revolution, how they interact with markets and how... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Horticulture; Modern Supply Chains; Farmer Impacts; Poverty; China; Crop Production/Industries; O33; O53; Q13. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25762 |
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| Barrett, Christopher B.; Reardon, Thomas. |
| This paper starts from the premise that diversification of assets, activities, and incomes is important to African rural households, in that diversification into nonfarm income constitutes on average about 45 percent of incomes, and the push and pull factors driving that diversification are bound to persist. From that premise, we noted that the empirical study of diversification has been beset by practical problems and issues relating to (1) definitions and concepts, (2) data collection, and to (3) measurement of the nature and extent of diversification. The paper addressed each of those problems. Two points are of special interest to the overall conceptualization of diversification research. The first is that empirical studies have exhibited a wide... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; O; Q12. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/14734 |
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| Jayne, Thomas S.; Tschirley, David L.; Rubey, Lawrence; Reardon, Thomas; Staatz, John M.; Weber, Michael T.. |
| This report is a synthesis of views presented at the Confronting the Silent Challenge of Hunger USAID Conference, June 28-29, 1994. The purposes of the conference were to provide information to assist AID in defining and articulating its development strategy related to agriculture and food security, to identify issues of consensus for incorporation into future AID strategy, and to identify critical issues of ongoing debate which need to be resolved. |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Food Security and Poverty; Downloads July 2008 - June 2009: 8; F35. |
| Ano: 1995 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54699 |
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| Neven, David; Hopkins, Rose; Weatherspoon, Dave D.; Reardon, Thomas. |
| There are many interesting illustrations of the strong economic impact of commercial farmers in Southern Africa. For example, over just the last five years, tobacco production in Zimbabwe dropped dramatically from 240 to 60 million while at the same time in Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique tobacco production increased to record highs and spurred the development of tobacco processing infrastructure (The Economist 2004). The main driving force behind this change are the hundreds of (white) commercial farmers who lost their farms due to Zimbabwe's radical land policy but found facilitating governments in neighboring countries. Using the case of South Africa, this paper addresses the question of how commercial farmers, as a key economic resource, can play a key... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Marketing. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11568 |
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