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Impact of Supermarket Procurement System on Farmers' Credit Access
Marcoul, Philippe; Veyssiere, Luc - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008
In developing countries, modern production contracts offered by supermarkets or agro-export firms entail a loan component under the form of input advances. Like traditional moneylenders, supermarkets want to make sure that this investment is not diverted. However, unlike moneylenders,...
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Supermarket Loss Estimates for Fresh Fruit, Vegetables, Meat, Poultry, and Seafood and Their Use in the ERS Loss-Adjusted Food Availability Data
Buzby, Jean C.; Wells, Hodan Farah; Axtman, Bruce; … - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2009
with point-of-sale data from six large national and regional supermarket retailers to identify loss in 2005 and 2006. The …
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Chapter 55 Transformation of Markets for Agricultural Output in Developing Countries Since 1950: How Has Thinking Changed?
Reardon, Thomas; Timmer, C. Peter - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 3: …, (pp. 2807-2855). 2007
develops during the agricultural and structural transformation. The related paths of development of policy and policy issues … transformation has occurred in the past decade – the “supermarket revolution”. This revolution has been the leading edge of … upstream segments of the domestic agrifood systems, on rural development, and on trade. …
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Moroni Feed Company: Impact of a Cooperative on Sanpete County, Utah
Carpenter, G. Alvin - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1979
Turkey producers in Central Utah rely on the Moroni Feed Company, a highly integrated cooperative which replaced a declining sugar beet production of the 1930's. The cooperative's complete services now include everything from breeder flocks to processed turkey products, feed milling, field...
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Trade and Development When Exports Lack Diversification: A Case Study From Malawi
Persaud, Suresh Chand; Meade, Birgit Gisela Saager - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2009
Developing countries, particularly those that depend heavily on a small number of agricultural exports, are vulnerable to domestic and international shocks. These countries often have difficulty achieving sustained economic growth. This analysis uses Malawi, a country that earns most of its...
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How reverse merger firms raise capital in PIPEs : search costs and placement agent reputation
Bayar, Onur; Liu, Yini; Mao, Juan - In: Review of quantitative finance and accounting 56 (2021) 1, pp. 143-184
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Food Standards, Heterogeneous Firms and Developing Countries’ Export Performance
Schuster, Monica; Maertens, Miet - Afdeling Landbouw- en Voedseleconomie, KU Leuven - 2013
insight puts doubt on the effectiveness of development programs to support developing country exporters to comply with private …
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Agricultural trade and development : a value chain perspective
Maertens, Miet; Swinnen, Johan F. M. - 2015 - Manuscript date: April 2015
for economic development. In this paper we document and discuss these changes; including the rapid growth and structural … for economic development, income mobility and poverty reduction in rural areas. …
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Cooperatives and Contracting in Agriculture: The Case of West Liberty Foods
Ginder, Roger G.; Hueth, Brent; Marcoul, Philippe - 2005
The West Liberty Foods turkey cooperative was formed in 1996 to purchase the assets and assume operations of Louis Rich Foods (an investor-owned processing firm), which, at the time, announced the imminent shutdown of its West Liberty, Iowa, processing facility. We study the creation and...
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Global agrifood value chains and local poverty reduction : what happens to those who don't plug in?
Chang, Han-hsin; DiCaprio, Alisa; Sahara, Sahara - 2015
including Indonesia. One element of this is the spread of supermarket retailing. By increasing the demand for and returns to … higher quality produce, this development has the potential to improve living standards in a sector where poverty has been …, little attention has been paid to how the introduction of a supermarket retailer affects those farmers who continue to sell …
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