Agri-food value chain revolutions in low-and middle-income countries

CB Barrett, T Reardon, J Swinnen… - Journal of Economic …, 2022 - aeaweb.org
Agri-food value chains (AVCs) intermediate the flow of products between largely rural
farmers, fisherfolk, or herders and increasingly urban consumers. The theoretical models …

[BOOK][B] Harvesting prosperity: Technology and productivity growth in agriculture

K Fuglie, M Gautam, A Goyal, WF Maloney - 2019 - books.google.com
Back cover blurb Rising agricultural productivity has driven improvements in living standards
for millennia. Today, redoubling that effort in develo** countries is critical to reducing …

Global and local food value chains in Africa: A review

H Feyaerts, G Van den Broeck… - Agricultural …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The rapid expansion of agrifood exports from low‐and middle‐income countries and the
contribution of global value chains to rural development are well‐documented in the …

Economic impact of a classical biological control program: application to Diachasmimorpha longicaudata against Bactrocera dorsalis fruit fly in Kenya

KM Agboka, HEZ Tonnang, BW Muriithi, S Niassy… - BioControl, 2024 - Springer
Classical biological control (CBC) has been exploited as a safer alternative for suppressing
the oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis, by importing, rearing, and releasing the larval …

Resilience of global and local value chains to the Covid‐19 pandemic: Survey evidence from vegetable value chains in Senegal

K Van Hoyweghen, A Fabry, H Feyaerts… - Agricultural …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper we descriptively investigate the Covid‐19 pandemic's early impact on the fruit
and vegetable supply chain in Senegal, using trade statistics and survey data collected …

[HTML][HTML] Empowerment in agricultural value chains: Mixed methods evidence from the Philippines

H Malapit, C Ragasa, EM Martinez, D Rubin… - Journal of Rural …, 2020 - Elsevier
Women's participation and empowerment in value chains are goals of many development
organizations, but there has been limited systematic, rigorous research to track these goals …

Producers, consumers, and value chains in low-and middle-income countries

MF Bellemare, JR Bloem, S Lim - Handbook of Agricultural Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
We present an overview of the literature on agri-food value chains in low-and middle-income
countries. Starting from farmers' decision of whether to move away from subsistence …

Trends and evolution of global value chains in food and agriculture: Implications for food security and nutrition

M Paul Jr, I Nana, A Zimmermann, Y Jafari - Food Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
Value chains in the food and agricultural sectors are crucial for food systems transformation
and economic development. As countries increasingly participate in global agrifood value …

[HTML][HTML] Greenhouse farming and employment: Evidence from Ecuador

H Stemmler, EM Meemken - Food Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
The transforming agri-food sector is an important contributor to employment generation in
rural areas of lower-income countries. However, little attention has been paid to the question …

[HTML][HTML] Agricultural land acquisitions unlikely to address the food security needs of African countries

A Mechiche-Alami, J Yagoubi, KA Nicholas - World Development, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract In recent years, Large Scale Land Acquisitions (LSLA), direct land tenure changes
have been gaining momentum in develo** countries. In this study, we evaluate the …