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

Kuijpers, Rob; Swinnen, Johan

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“…23 For a formal model of the distributional and growth effects of technology transfer through value chains, see Kuijpers and Swinnen (2016). 24 Similarly, Negash and Swinnen (2013) and Riera and Swinnen (2016) find positive effects on food security of smallholder biofuel value chains in Ethiopia because of (a) enhanced cash income during lean periods and (b) spillover effects on increased food crop productivity through fertilizer access from value chain contracts.…”

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Swinnen

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Agricultural Economics

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Standards have played an important role in food trade for a very long time. Their rapid growth in recent years has triggered vigorous debates on their impacts on international trade and development, with many arguing that standards are "non-tariff barriers" to trade and that standards are marginalizing the poor. I present conceptual frameworks and review empirical evidence on the equity and efficiency effects and the political economy of standards. Models which incorporate essential aspects of standards yield complex theoretical results and nuanced conclusions. Careful empirical analyses support such nuanced arguments and find complex effects. For trade, standards can create welfare gains but also involve rent redistribution which induces lobbying by interest groups to set the standards at their preferred level. This makes it difficult to distinguish socially desirable standards from those resulting from political rent-seeking. For development, it is crucial to explicitly account for (a) the endogeneity of the institutional organization of value chains and (b) both smallholder contracting and employment creation on large scale farms when considering the impact of standards on development and poverty.

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“…Note thatFigure 4is a stylized and simplified version of a more complex set of surplus and distribution functions (seeKuijpers and Swinnen (2016) Swinnen et al (2015) for more complex and more general cases).…”

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“…Another important factor affecting the risk of hold up, and therefore the feasibility of a transfer is the type of technology that is being transferred. Two dimensions of technology seem to be of particular importance here (Kuijpers and Swinnen 2016): the time dimension and, the specificity of the technology.…”

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Value Chain Innovations for Technology Transfer in Developing and Emerging Economies: Concept, Typology and Policy Implications

Swinnen

Kuijpers

2016

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The adoption of modern technologies in agriculture is crucial for improving productivity of poor farmers and poverty reduction. However, the adoption of modern technology has been disappointing. The role of value chains in technology adoption has been largely ignored so far, despite the dramatic transformation and spread of modern agri-food value chains. We argue that value chain organization and innovations can have an important impact on modern technology adoption, not just by downstream companies, but also by farmers. We provide a conceptual framework and an empirical typology of institutional innovations through which value chains can contribute to technology transfer to agriculture in developing and emerging countries.

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“…where majority of the work force is associated with agriculture contributes less than 10% of the gross domestic product (GDP) to the country's economy. This is an alarming situation and with the unprecedented growth in human population, modern technologies should be used in agriculture sector in order to increase the growth of this sector in terms of yield and revenue [2].…”

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Hardware Software Co-Design of a Farming Robot

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Saadi²,

Sasithong³

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Food means life and no one can think about living without food. This is the most fundamental human necessity and food security is one of the major global concern of this century. With the revolution and recent advancements in the field of electronics and communication, there has been a paradigm shift from conventional farming ways to the modern one. This paper talks about the development of hardware software co-design of agricultural farming robot. Our developed farming robot has two parts namely hardware part which further consists of mechanical, electrical, control and tools segments and the software part which allows user to interact with the farming robot via cloud service. Our proposed hardware architecture is compatible with commercial Farmbot product and the developed web-based software can be extended for more features and applications. Furthermore, the developed robot has been tested and it works well.

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

Cited by 51 publications

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Economics and politics of food standards, trade, and development#

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Value Chain Innovations for Technology Transfer in Developing and Emerging Economies: Concept, Typology and Policy Implications

Hardware Software Co-Design of a Farming Robot

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