Partial Vertical Integration, Risk Shifting, and Product Rejection in the High-Value Export Supply Chain: The Ghana Pineapple Sector

Suzuki, Aya; Jarvis, Lovell S.; Sexton, Richard J.

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.02.007

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“…These are frequently lacking in developing country industries.  R&D investments are necessary to maintain and expand a country's presence in global markets, even for agricultural commodities such as pineapples (Suzuki et al, 2011).  The presence of a local supply base, including as pesticide manufacturers and seedling suppliers, contributes to the ability of exporting firms to secure uninterrupted access to critical inputs (Fernandez-Stark & Bamber, 2013;Fernandez-Stark, Bamber, et al, 2011a).…”

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Connecting Local Producers in Developing Countries to Regional and Global Value Chains

Bamber

Fernández-Stark

Gereffi

et al. 2014

OECD Trade Policy Papers

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Section: Institutionalization: Industry Maturitymentioning

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Connecting Local Producers in Developing Countries to Regional and Global Value Chains

Bamber

Fernández-Stark

Gereffi

et al. 2014

OECD Trade Policy Papers

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“…3 Adewumi's (2013) Suzuki et al, 2011). 4 Of the 271 reported case studies in Sub-Saharan Africa that we have covered in our literature research, 36 mention contract farming (Table 3).…”

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Rural welfare implications of large-scale land acquisitions in Africa: A theoretical framework

Kleemann

Thiele

2015

Economic Modelling

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractLarge-scale agricultural land acquisitions might entail substantial welfare implications for the affected rural population. Whether the impacts are indeed as devastating as the popular notion of "land grabs" would suggest depends on a number of factors, including the size of compensation payments, productivity spillovers on smallholders, employment opportunities for displaced farmers, and changes in food prices. We study the local welfare effects of land acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa using a theoretical model that captures the major channels through which land deals might affect rural African populations. We distinguish two basic scenarios. In the first scenario, the investor plants capital intensive staple food crops. Displaced farmers compete for a very limited number of jobs on the investment farm and spillovers to the remaining local farmers are rare. In the second scenario, where the investor is assumed to plant cash crops, potential spillovers through contract farming are larger and production is more labor intensive and hence provides better employment prospects. In both scenarios the crop produced on the investment farm is exported. The net welfare outcome varies with the relative strengths of the contradicting effects of spillovers, wages and food prices. We determine the minimum size of compensation payments for displaced farmers that would leave them as well off as staying on their plot.

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“…This instrumental variable 14 The importance of networks and the efficiency of information flows in the process of new technology adoption is emphasized in several studies spanning across different countries (Boahene, Snijders, & Folmer, 1999;Conley & Udry, 2010;Matuschke & Qaim, 2009), as well as the livelihood and market access literature (Bacon, 2005;Blanc & Kledal, 2012;Suzuki, Jarvis, & Sexton, 2011). takes value 1 if a farmer has ever heard about standards and 0 otherwise. Table 4 shows the information we obtained from the survey when we asked about the sources of information about food standards.…”

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Food Standards are Good – For Middle-Class Farmers

Hansen

Trifković

2014

World Development

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We estimate the causal effect of food standards on Vietnamese pangasius farmers' wellbeing measured by per capita consumption expenditure. We estimate both the average effects and the local average treatment effects on poorer and richer farmers by instrumental variable quantile regression. Our results indicate that large returns can be accrued from food standards, but only for the upper middle-class farmers, i.e., those between the 50% and 85% quantiles of the expenditure distribution. Overall, our result points to an exclusionary impact of standards for the poorest farmers while the richest do not apply standards because the added gain is too small.

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Partial Vertical Integration, Risk Shifting, and Product Rejection in the High-Value Export Supply Chain: The Ghana Pineapple Sector

Cited by 60 publications

References 28 publications

Connecting Local Producers in Developing Countries to Regional and Global Value Chains

Connecting Local Producers in Developing Countries to Regional and Global Value Chains

Rural welfare implications of large-scale land acquisitions in Africa: A theoretical framework

Food Standards are Good – For Middle-Class Farmers

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