Agri-food value chain revolutions in low- and middle-income countries
Agri-food value chains (AVCs) intermediate the flow of products between largely rural farmers, fisherfolk, or herders and increasingly urban consumers. The theoretical models that historically structured research on the economic development process assumed away AVC functions, however, and AVC firms...
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American Economic Association
2022
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| author | Barrett, Christopher B. Reardon, Thomas Swinnen, Johan Zilberman, David |
| author_browse | Barrett, Christopher B. Reardon, Thomas Swinnen, Johan Zilberman, David |
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| description | Agri-food value chains (AVCs) intermediate the flow of products between largely rural farmers, fisherfolk, or herders and increasingly urban consumers. The theoretical models that historically structured research on the economic development process assumed away AVC functions, however, and AVC firms and workers were necessarily omitted from the household data that generated most empirical findings in the agricultural and development economics literatures. As a result, the discipline has somewhat overlooked the rapid growth and structural change in AVCs over the past few decades that turned AVCs into major employers and sources of value addition, as well as key loci for technology transfer and foreign investment. This paper offers an integrated, structured, empirical narrative of how and why AVC revolutions occur in developing countries, the impacts of those changes, and the abundant economic research opportunities these structural changes afford economists. (JEL L14, L81, O13, O33, Q12, Q13, Q17) |
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| spelling | CGSpace1269212024-10-25T07:54:41Z Agri-food value chain revolutions in low- and middle-income countries Barrett, Christopher B. Reardon, Thomas Swinnen, Johan Zilberman, David agrifood systems value chains structural adjustment fishers economic development technology transfer farmers households research products developing countries consumers pastoralists rural areas foreign investment Agri-food value chains (AVCs) intermediate the flow of products between largely rural farmers, fisherfolk, or herders and increasingly urban consumers. The theoretical models that historically structured research on the economic development process assumed away AVC functions, however, and AVC firms and workers were necessarily omitted from the household data that generated most empirical findings in the agricultural and development economics literatures. As a result, the discipline has somewhat overlooked the rapid growth and structural change in AVCs over the past few decades that turned AVCs into major employers and sources of value addition, as well as key loci for technology transfer and foreign investment. This paper offers an integrated, structured, empirical narrative of how and why AVC revolutions occur in developing countries, the impacts of those changes, and the abundant economic research opportunities these structural changes afford economists. (JEL L14, L81, O13, O33, Q12, Q13, Q17) 2022-12-01 2023-01-11T21:58:06Z 2023-01-11T21:58:06Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/126921 en Limited Access American Economic Association Barrett, Christopher B.; Reardon, Thomas; Swinnen, Johan; and Zilberman, David. 2022. Agri-food value chain revolutions in low- and middle-income countries. Journal of Economic Literature 60(4): 1316-1377. https://doi.org/10.1257/jel.20201539 |
| spellingShingle | agrifood systems value chains structural adjustment fishers economic development technology transfer farmers households research products developing countries consumers pastoralists rural areas foreign investment Barrett, Christopher B. Reardon, Thomas Swinnen, Johan Zilberman, David Agri-food value chain revolutions in low- and middle-income countries |
| title | Agri-food value chain revolutions in low- and middle-income countries |
| title_full | Agri-food value chain revolutions in low- and middle-income countries |
| title_fullStr | Agri-food value chain revolutions in low- and middle-income countries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Agri-food value chain revolutions in low- and middle-income countries |
| title_short | Agri-food value chain revolutions in low- and middle-income countries |
| title_sort | agri food value chain revolutions in low and middle income countries |
| topic | agrifood systems value chains structural adjustment fishers economic development technology transfer farmers households research products developing countries consumers pastoralists rural areas foreign investment |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/126921 |
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