Finance Through Food and Commodity Value Chains in a Globalized Economy

Swinnen, Johan; Maertens, Miet

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“…34 See Miller and Jones (2010) for a description of different approaches of value chain financing. See also Swinnen and Maertens (2013) in this volume. 35 Guillou and Matheron (2011), p. 23.…”

Section: Box 2: the Ambivalent Role Of Modern Food Distribution And Mmentioning

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Food Security and a Holistic Finance for Rural Markets

Köhn

Jainzik

2013

Finance for Food

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Investments in agriculture, particularly in smallholder agriculture in developing countries, are regarded as critical for meeting the food demands of a growing world population. 3 Improvements in agricultural finance, mainly in providing investment credit to farmers, are widely regarded as an important approach to stimulate production. 4 While this is certainly true, it is only part of the story. Agriculture-related physical and market infrastructure have been widely neglected in the discussion despite their immense relevance for making food available in developing countries-and as a precondition for farmers to produce at all. In this chapter, we describe the investment and financing needs of every step in the food production and distribution chain: from farm to fork, from pasture to plate, or from barnyard to belly. Take your pick. 1 Commercialisation of Farming as an Opportunity The global economic framework for agricultural production has changed significantly in recent years. Most importantly, after decades of stagnating commodity prices, prices for agricultural produce, processed as well as non-processed, have significantly increased and are expected to increase further. Population growth and increased demand for high-value food products-particularly in the big emerging markets-are the underlying factors that indicate a continuing challenge. 5 This

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Section: Box 2: the Ambivalent Role Of Modern Food Distribution And Mmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, they appear to increase food losses again, 30 See Hodges et al (2011). 31 For a discussion of agricultural value chains and value chain finance, see Swinnen and Maertens (2013). 32 See Hodges et al (2011) and Coulter and Shepherd (1995).…”

Section: Box 2: the Ambivalent Role Of Modern Food Distribution And Mmentioning

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Food Security and a Holistic Finance for Rural Markets

Köhn

Jainzik

2013

Finance for Food

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“…There is much literature on how standards in high value chains and the associated requirements for suppliers to invest in modern technology (as well as the need to economize on transaction costs) has (a) induced a shift to larger suppliers; (b) led to a significant amount of vertically integrated production systems, but (c) also a remarkable heterogeneity in supply systems, with smallholder contracting far more common than initially expected (for surveys, see e.g. Beghin et al 2015;Maertens and Swinnen 2014;Reardon et al 2009).…”

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Value Chains and Technology Transfer to Agriculture in Developing and Emerging Economies

Kuijpers¹,

Swinnen²

2016

American J Agri Economics

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Value chains in the agrifood sector are undergoing a rapid process of modernization, characterized by the emergence of private standards and different systems of vertical value chain governance. In this article we investigate the technological implications of these developments at the farm-level. We explicitly modelled the conditions under which technology transfer and adoption will occur in a value chain setting and reviewed the corresponding evidence on these issues. We find that technology transfer within a value chain can occur in an environment with imperfect credit and technology markets, but depends on the surplus generated by the technology, the holdup opportunities of the supplier and the type of technology. Finally, using these findings we discuss the implications of public investment and the role of private standards as a potential catalyst for technology adoption and transfer.

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“…In practice, VCF can be as simple as a trader providing a cash advance and accepting payment in kind at harvest time. Alternatively, it can be a more sophisticated configuration in which banks or external financiers provide credit to agribusinesses and traders who, in turn, lend to farmer associations or individual farmers under various types of contract arrangements (Swinnen & Maertens 2010). Credit guarantees that underwrite part of the risk along value chains are also a promising way of leveraging more commercial bank lending to small farmers and small-and medium-sized agribusinesses.…”

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Topic Guide: Agricultural productivity

Hazell

2014

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Finance Through Food and Commodity Value Chains in a Globalized Economy

Cited by 12 publications

References 25 publications

Food Security and a Holistic Finance for Rural Markets

Food Security and a Holistic Finance for Rural Markets

Value Chains and Technology Transfer to Agriculture in Developing and Emerging Economies

Topic Guide: Agricultural productivity

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