The challenges of aligning aggregation schemes with equitable fruit and vegetable delivery: Lessons from Bihar, India
Agricultural aggregation schemes provide numerous farmer-facing benefits, including reduced transportation costs and improved access to higher-demand urban markets. However, whether aggregation schemes also have positive food security dimensions for consumers dependent on peri-urban and local market...
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| author | Cooper, G.S. Rich, Karl M. Shankara, B. Rana, V. |
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| description | Agricultural aggregation schemes provide numerous farmer-facing benefits, including reduced transportation costs and improved access to higher-demand urban markets. However, whether aggregation schemes also have positive food security dimensions for consumers dependent on peri-urban and local markets in developing country contexts is currently unknown. This paper aims to narrow this knowledge gap by exploring the actors, governance structures and physical infrastructures of the horticultural value chain of Bihar, India, to identify barriers to using aggregation to improve the distribution of fruits and vegetables to more local market environments.This study uses mixed methods. Quantitative analysis of market transaction data explores the development of aggregation supply pathways over space and time. In turn, semi-structured interviews with value chain actors uncover the interactions and decision-making processes with implications for equitable fruit and vegetable delivery.Whilst aggregation successfully generates multiple producer-facing benefits, the supply pathways tend to cluster around urban export-oriented hubs, owing to the presence of high-capacity traders, large consumer bases and traditional power dynamics. Various barriers across the wider enabling environment must be overcome to unlock the potential for aggregation to increase local fruit and vegetable delivery, including informal governance structures, cold storage gaps and underdeveloped transport infrastructures.To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first critical analysis of horticultural aggregation through a consumer-sensitive lens. The policy-relevant lessons are pertinent to the equitable and sustainable development of horticultural systems both in Bihar and in similar low- and middle-income settings. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1152102025-12-08T10:29:22Z The challenges of aligning aggregation schemes with equitable fruit and vegetable delivery: Lessons from Bihar, India Cooper, G.S. Rich, Karl M. Shankara, B. Rana, V. markets value chains fruit vegetables food systems Agricultural aggregation schemes provide numerous farmer-facing benefits, including reduced transportation costs and improved access to higher-demand urban markets. However, whether aggregation schemes also have positive food security dimensions for consumers dependent on peri-urban and local markets in developing country contexts is currently unknown. This paper aims to narrow this knowledge gap by exploring the actors, governance structures and physical infrastructures of the horticultural value chain of Bihar, India, to identify barriers to using aggregation to improve the distribution of fruits and vegetables to more local market environments.This study uses mixed methods. Quantitative analysis of market transaction data explores the development of aggregation supply pathways over space and time. In turn, semi-structured interviews with value chain actors uncover the interactions and decision-making processes with implications for equitable fruit and vegetable delivery.Whilst aggregation successfully generates multiple producer-facing benefits, the supply pathways tend to cluster around urban export-oriented hubs, owing to the presence of high-capacity traders, large consumer bases and traditional power dynamics. Various barriers across the wider enabling environment must be overcome to unlock the potential for aggregation to increase local fruit and vegetable delivery, including informal governance structures, cold storage gaps and underdeveloped transport infrastructures.To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first critical analysis of horticultural aggregation through a consumer-sensitive lens. The policy-relevant lessons are pertinent to the equitable and sustainable development of horticultural systems both in Bihar and in similar low- and middle-income settings. 2022-03-22 2021-09-28T14:11:11Z 2021-09-28T14:11:11Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/115210 en Open Access Emerald Publishing Limited Cooper, G.S., Rich, K.M., Shankara, B. and Rana, V. 2021. The challenges of aligning aggregation schemes with equitable fruit and vegetable delivery: Lessons from Bihar, India. Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies |
| spellingShingle | markets value chains fruit vegetables food systems Cooper, G.S. Rich, Karl M. Shankara, B. Rana, V. The challenges of aligning aggregation schemes with equitable fruit and vegetable delivery: Lessons from Bihar, India |
| title | The challenges of aligning aggregation schemes with equitable fruit and vegetable delivery: Lessons from Bihar, India |
| title_full | The challenges of aligning aggregation schemes with equitable fruit and vegetable delivery: Lessons from Bihar, India |
| title_fullStr | The challenges of aligning aggregation schemes with equitable fruit and vegetable delivery: Lessons from Bihar, India |
| title_full_unstemmed | The challenges of aligning aggregation schemes with equitable fruit and vegetable delivery: Lessons from Bihar, India |
| title_short | The challenges of aligning aggregation schemes with equitable fruit and vegetable delivery: Lessons from Bihar, India |
| title_sort | challenges of aligning aggregation schemes with equitable fruit and vegetable delivery lessons from bihar india |
| topic | markets value chains fruit vegetables food systems |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/115210 |
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