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and a functioning judicial system - as well as investing in transportation and information infrastructure may facilitate …

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Rice contract farming in Lao PDR : moving from subsistence to commercial agriculture

Leung, PingSun (contributor); … - 2008

Poverty is prevalent among small farms in transition economies such as the Lao PDR, where market failures prevail and subsistence production is the norm. Contract farming is emerging as a promising tool to facilitate market linkages and provide the necessary supports that enable small farms to...

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Gender, agricultural commercialization, and collective action in Kenya

Fischer, Elisabeth; Qaim, Matin - 2012

With the commercialization of agriculture, women are increasingly disadvantaged because of persistent gender-disparities in access to productive resources. Farmer collective action that intends to improve smallholder access to markets and technology could potentially accelerate this trend. Here,...

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Supply chain differentiation, contract agriculture, and farmers' marketing preferences : the case of sweet pepper in Thailand

Schipmann, Christin; Qaim, Matin - 2011

There is an emerging body of literature analyzing how smallholder farmers in developing countries can be linked to modern supply chains. However, most of the available studies concentrate on farm and farmer characteristics, failing to capture details of institutional arrangements between farmers...

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The Modern Agricultural Cooperative : A Cognitive-Knowledge-Based Approach

Fontanari, Eddi - 2017

contribution mingling the knowledge-based theory of the firm with the social innovation approach in agriculture will be defined …

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Corporate Concentration and Technological Change in the Global Seed Industry

Bonny, Sylvie - 2017

In the past three decades, the seed sector has experienced, and is now again experiencing, corporate concentration trends. The fallout of this consolidation is the subject of numerous concerns. However, the seed sector is rather poorly understood. Thus, it is useful to understand it better and...

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Meeting Changing Customer Requirements in Food and Agriculture Through Application of Blockchain Technology

Sengupta, Ushnish - 2019

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Assessing the Role of Mobile Phones in Offering Price Information and Market Linkages : The Case of M-Farm in Kenya

Baumüller, Heike - 2016

-enabled services that offer price information and market linkages could contribute towards bridging this gap by reducing uncertainty … about expected profits, information asymmetries and market inefficiencies. This article uses the example of the price … information and marketing service M-Farm in Kenya to empirically test this potential. Findings from a survey of M-Farm users …

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The Benefit of Cold Storages : Evidence from Bihar (India)

Minten, Bart - 2014

The Indian government has provided large subsidies to stimulate the take-off of the cold storage sector. However, the impact of this policy is not well understood. In a case study of the potato sector in Bihar, we find that there have been dramatic increases and rapid up-scaling of cold...

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Bottom-up, Bottom-line: Development-Relevant Enterprises in East Africa and their Significance for Agricultural Innovation

Hall, Andy; Clark, Norman; Frost, Andy - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010

-conceived notion of agricultural sector capacity for innovation and development. This paper discusses the emergence of a new class of … entrepreneurial activity may form the basis of a new mode of development assistance aimed at using innovation for both social and …

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