Global value chains in the agrifood sector

UNIDO

Published in : 2006

Available in : English

Trends in global agribusiness and their consequences for strategies to eradicate poverty through increasing export growth are analysed in this paper using the GVC perspective. This perspective analyses inter-firm linkages in global agribusiness, placing agricultural production and processing in developing countries in the context of the dynamics of the broader global agribusiness and agrifood systems. The value chain perspective has highlighted issues of codification of knowledge in value chains, supplier competence, strategies to reduce the costs of governance, power asymmetries, and concentration. These issues are decisively affected by the two major trends in agribusiness value chains, the increasing importance of standards and increasing concentration, subjects of this paper.

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Global_value_chains_in_the_agrifood_sector.pdf (PDF, 378.99Kb)

Originally posted at : UNIDO publications - Agro-Industries

This resource is listed under:

Themes : Nutrition and food systems, general, Vulnerable groups, general, Food chain, food production and processing, Food safety, Poverty

Resource types : Scientific/background documents