Introduction to special issue on regional growth opportunities
This issue contains seven articles addressing the major changes underway in the integration of economies in southern Africa. In the first article, Channing Arndt and Simon Roberts map out the changes in trade flows, which demonstrate the extent to which South Africa’s diversified exports to Southern...
| Main Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Opinion Piece |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Published: |
Informa UK Limited
2018
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147300 |
| _version_ | 1855513997938262016 |
|---|---|
| author | Arndt, Channing Roberts, Simon J. |
| author_browse | Arndt, Channing Roberts, Simon J. |
| author_facet | Arndt, Channing Roberts, Simon J. |
| author_sort | Arndt, Channing |
| collection | Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (CGSpace) |
| description | This issue contains seven articles addressing the major changes underway in the integration of economies in southern Africa. In the first article, Channing Arndt and Simon Roberts map out the changes in trade flows, which demonstrate the extent to which South Africa’s diversified exports to Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries have grown, and provide an overall policy synthesis drawing from the articles in this issue and other sources. The spread of major supermarket chains across southern Africa is assessed in two articles. Reena Das Nair maps the growing reach of supermarkets in southern Africa; this is changing the way food is purchased, with implications throughout the marketing chain. Supermarkets enforce tight quality and timeliness requirements and can have substantial power over suppliers (as they are the route to consumers). Shingie Chisoro, Reena Das Nair and Francis Ziba evaluate supplier capabilities and point to the importance of policies to support supplier upgrading and linkages with supermarket networks to access the growing consumer markets across SADC. In contrast, failure by local suppliers to link to supermarkets implies continuous undermining of local production. |
| format | Opinion Piece |
| id | CGSpace147300 |
| institution | CGIAR Consortium |
| language | Inglés |
| publishDate | 2018 |
| publishDateRange | 2018 |
| publishDateSort | 2018 |
| publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| publisherStr | Informa UK Limited |
| record_format | dspace |
| spelling | CGSpace1473002024-10-25T07:53:03Z Introduction to special issue on regional growth opportunities Arndt, Channing Roberts, Simon J. value chains poultry production economics networks capacity development transport infrastructure poultry farming supermarkets This issue contains seven articles addressing the major changes underway in the integration of economies in southern Africa. In the first article, Channing Arndt and Simon Roberts map out the changes in trade flows, which demonstrate the extent to which South Africa’s diversified exports to Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries have grown, and provide an overall policy synthesis drawing from the articles in this issue and other sources. The spread of major supermarket chains across southern Africa is assessed in two articles. Reena Das Nair maps the growing reach of supermarkets in southern Africa; this is changing the way food is purchased, with implications throughout the marketing chain. Supermarkets enforce tight quality and timeliness requirements and can have substantial power over suppliers (as they are the route to consumers). Shingie Chisoro, Reena Das Nair and Francis Ziba evaluate supplier capabilities and point to the importance of policies to support supplier upgrading and linkages with supermarket networks to access the growing consumer markets across SADC. In contrast, failure by local suppliers to link to supermarkets implies continuous undermining of local production. 2018-09-26 2024-06-21T09:13:03Z 2024-06-21T09:13:03Z Opinion Piece https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147300 en Open Access Informa UK Limited Arndt, Channing; and Roberts, Simon. 2018. Introduction to special issue on regional growth opportunities. Development Southern Africa 35(3): 295-296. https://doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2018.1456911 |
| spellingShingle | value chains poultry production economics networks capacity development transport infrastructure poultry farming supermarkets Arndt, Channing Roberts, Simon J. Introduction to special issue on regional growth opportunities |
| title | Introduction to special issue on regional growth opportunities |
| title_full | Introduction to special issue on regional growth opportunities |
| title_fullStr | Introduction to special issue on regional growth opportunities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Introduction to special issue on regional growth opportunities |
| title_short | Introduction to special issue on regional growth opportunities |
| title_sort | introduction to special issue on regional growth opportunities |
| topic | value chains poultry production economics networks capacity development transport infrastructure poultry farming supermarkets |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147300 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT arndtchanning introductiontospecialissueonregionalgrowthopportunities AT robertssimonj introductiontospecialissueonregionalgrowthopportunities |