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Moving rubber to a better place - and extracting rents from credit constrained farmers along the way

Kopp, Thomas; Bümmer, Bernhard - 2015

While traders of agricultural products are known to often exercise market power, this power has rarely been quantified for developing countries. In order to derive a measure, we estimate the traders' revenue functions and calculate the Marginal Value Products directly from them. We subsequently...

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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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Contract farming and smallholder incentives to produce high quality: experimental evidence from the Vietnamese dairy sector

Saenger, Christoph; Qaim, Matin; Torero, Maximo; … - 2012

Vietnamese dairy sector to analyze the effectiveness of existing contracts between a processor and smallholder farmers in terms …

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Impact of Third-Party Enforcement of Contracts in Agricultural Markets – A Field Experiment in Vietnam

Saenger, Christoph; Torero, Maximo; Qaim, Matin - 2013

We study the effect of alleviating information asymmetry regarding product quality that is widespread in developing-country agricultural markets. Opportunistic buyers may underreport quality levels back to farmers to reduce the price they have to pay. In response, farmers may curb investment,...

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Overview of contract farming in Thailand: Lessons learned

Sriboonchitta, Songsak; Wiboonpoongse, Aree - 2008

the concerned parties to raise agricultural productivity. The paper also evaluates the effectiveness of contract farming …

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Enablers and inhibitors of collaborative network development in organic food industry: A fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA)

Stanciu, Silvius; Bichescu, Cezar; Căpățînă, Alexandru - In: Contemporary Economics 12 (2018) 4, pp. 433-446

enablers of collaborative network development on this food industry niche market and the barriers that currently restrict its … collaborative network on the organic market niche, how their perceived compatibility of a retailers' business model and how their … perceived risks connected to commitment to the collaborative network affect the wider adoption of collective networks, using …

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Making it personal: Breach and private ordering in a contract farming experiment

Kunte, Sebastian; Wollni, Meike; Keser, Claudia - 2014

Contracts may be subject to strategic default, particularly if public enforcement institutions are weak. In a lab experiment, we study behavior in a contract farming game without third-party enforcement but with an external spot market as outside option. Two players, farmer and company, may...

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Risk Management in the Agri-food Sector

Bachev, Hrabin - In: Contemporary Economics 7 (2013) 1, pp. 45-62

the efficiency of risk management and identifies the factors (personal, institutional, dimensional, technological, and … natural) of governance choice. Next, it presents stages in the analysis of risk management and the improvement of public … intervention in the governance of risk. Finally, it identifies the contemporary opportunities and challenges for risk governance in …

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Vertical Coordination by Contracts in Agribusiness - An Empirical Research in the Hungarian Dairy Sector

Szabo, Gabor G.; Bardos, Krisztina - 2005

that one could understand how contractual systems work in the situation when crises appear thanks to governance … determinants of governance structure between farmers and dairy processors in Hungary. The source of the research is a theoretical … and governance structures. These gave the theoretical determinants of testable prepositions. In the framework of a postal …

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Unofficial trade when states are weak: the case of cross-border commerce in the Horn of Africa

Little, Peter - 2005

This paper addresses informal cross-border trade in the Horn of Africa, with an emphasis on the Somalia borderlands. It will be shown that despite the collapse of a government in 1991, Somalia’s unofficial exports of cattle to Kenya have grown considerably during the past 13 years. It will be...

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