Results: The study has shown that adjustments in agri-food systems globally are producing
an increased new interest in CF as a supply-chain governance strategy. It has been …

Global retail companies (“supermarkets”) have an increasing influence on developing
countries, through foreign investments and/or through the imposition of their private …

This article examines a new role for contract farming in developing countries in the light of
the industrialisation of agriculture and the globalisation of world markets. A theoretical …

This article reports the findings of a study on modern domestic retailers in Vietnam. The
authors based this study on (1) a survey of fifty-six firms that control almost all the modern …

Contract farming is considered as institutional arrangements that manage the coordination
of production and distribution between smallholder farmers and agro-industrial firms. Under …

Over the past decades, the world has witnessed an unprecedented growth in global value
chains, propelled by increasingly demanding quality standards. These trends lead to …

The industrialization of agriculture and the potential problem of small-scale farmer
marginalization calls for a fresh approach to the design of agribusiness supply chain …

Purpose Using annual data from 1970 to 2013 for China and India, this paper aims to
examine the impact of globalization and financial development on economic growth by …

Global retail chains are becoming increasingly dominant in the global food trade, and their
rise leads to dramatic impacts on agricultural supply chains and on small producers …

This report surveys the recent literature on producer organizations with a specific focus on
factors affecting their establishment and their impact on farmers' market performance and …