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Agri-food Value Chain Revolutions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Abstract
Agri-food value chains (AVCs) intermediate the flow of products between largely rural farmers, fisherfolk, or herders and increasingly urban consumers. The theoretical models that historically structured research on the economic development process assumed away AVC functions, however, and AVC firms and workers were necessarily omitted from the household data that generated most empirical findings in the agricultural and development economics literatures. As a result, the discipline has somewhat overlooked the rapid growth and structural change in AVCs over the past few decades that turned AVCs into major employers and sources of value addition, as well as key loci for technology transfer and foreign investment. This paper offers an integrated, structured, empirical narrative of how and why AVC revolutions occur in developing countries, the impacts of those changes, and the abundant economic research opportunities these structural changes afford economists. (JEL L14, L81, O13, O33, Q12, Q13, Q17)
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“For example, the largest global commodity traders sell inputs such as fertilizers, pesticides, and seeds to the producers who are also their suppliers of agricultural commodities, further shaping material aspects of the food system by determining the specific types of tech nologies used in production for significant portions of the market (e.g., Grabs and Carodenuto 2021; Barrett et al. 2”
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- Authors
- Barrett, C. B., Reardon, T., Swinnen, J., & Zilberman, D.
- Affiliations
- Cornell University (US)
- Michigan State University (US)
- International Food Policy Research Institute (US)
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Economic Literature
- Publisher
- American Economic Association
- Published
- 2022-12-01
- Volume
- 60
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1316-1377
- ISSN
- 0022-0515 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3121596959
- Cited by
- 371
- References
- 147
- Citations by year
- 2026: 117 · 2025: 89 · 2024: 58 · 2023: 72 · 2022: 22
- FWCI
- 84.43
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Economic Literature (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- IFPRI E-brary (International Food Policy Research Institute) (submittedVersion)
- CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research) (submittedVersion)
- International Food Policy Research Institute (International Food Policy Research Institute) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agriculture and Agroindustry Studies
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- Keywords
- agri-food value chains, low- and middle-income countries, urban-rural relations, value addition, technology transfer, foreign investment, agricultural employment, economic development
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