Although many urban areas around the world have grown steadily in recent years, the
structural transformation, wherein an economy goes from relying primarily on agriculture and …

Contract farming (CF) has long been practiced but is becoming increasingly common in both
developed and developing countries with the heightened interest of consumers in food …

Back cover blurb Rising agricultural productivity has driven improvements in living standards
for millennia. Today, redoubling that effort in developing countries is critical to reducing …

Developing regions' food system has transformed rapidly in the past several decades. The
food system is the dendritic cluster of R&D value chains, and the value chains linking input …

Supermarkets, specialized wholesalers, processors, and agro-exporters are transforming
the marketing channels into which smallholder farmers sell produce in low-income …

Highlights•A critical review on food systems drivers is conducted.•The review reveals several
methodological and conceptual issues.•Twelve major global drivers are identified through …

While Contract Farming (CF) can enhance smallholders' income in developing countries,
empirical research on the motivation of smallholders to participate in CF is scarce. This …

Since the early 2000s, India's agro-food sector has undergone rapid transformations
towards greater market share of modern food retail. This has impacted Indian agriculture …

The globalisation of agrifood systems is a mega-trend with potentially profound nutritional
implications. This paper describes various facets of this globalisation process and reviews …

At present, our ability to comprehend the dynamics of food systems and the consequences
of their rapid 'transformations' is limited. In this paper, we propose to address this gap by …