Brazilian agribusiness, a sector that represents a quarter of the country's economy, has undergone significant transformations since the 1960s. With the economic opening and financial stabilization of the 1990s, several agribusiness productive segments maintained a good performance, although the...

There exist a plethora of developing country value chain studies based on a variety of methodological approaches, both in the academic literature and through policy reports. However, there has been little systematic synthesis of the findings and approaches taken in these studies. This study...

Neue digitale Technologien gelten als Problemlöser für bestehende Herausforderungen des Agribusiness. Als Transmissionsriemen dieser Technologien rücken verstärkt junge, innovative Wachstumsunternehmen in den Fokus von Wirtschaft, Politik, Verbänden und Medien. Die Förderung des...

The agribusiness sector has continued to contribute significantly to Romania's GDP, and the positive results are due to Romania's agricultural potential, increased production, as well as investments in infrastructure and state-of-the-art tools made in recent years by large companies operating in...

Neue digitale Technologien gelten als Problemlöser für bestehende Herausforderungen des Agribusiness. Als Transmissionsriemen dieser Technologien rücken verstärkt junge, innovative Wachstumsunternehmen in den Fokus von Wirtschaft, Politik, Verbänden und Medien. Die Förderung des...

This paper aims at understanding the effect of demonetization announced in November 2016 on agribusiness subsystems, its effect on consumer purchasing criteria, and the problems that surfaced in rural areas to move towards digitalization. This research was exploratory in nature and so adopted an...

Some entry barriers in agricultural and agro-processing value chains, particularly for smallholder farmers and small/medium-sized processors, can be overcome with innovation and technology adoption. Technologies and innovation in these sectors have been both radical and incremental, ranging...

Regional integration in Africa is underway but ongoing progress requires that the gains are widely spread. South Africa's huge regional trade surplus in manufactured goods is already leading to protectionist pressures in neighbouring countries. Agro-processing is a large sector, which is widely...

Growing investments in food and farmland have raised concerns about the potential implications of the financialisation of the Australian agri-food sector. However, little is known about how these investments are negotiated in practice - what people and tools structure agricultural investments...

En este trabajo se propone un enfoque sobre las causas del deterioro ambiental que integra el análisis en distintos niveles de organización económica, con especial atención en el nivel de las políticas macroeconómicas y sectoriales. En la segunda sección, aplicando este enfoque en una...

The agribusiness sector has continued to contribute significantly to Romania's GDP, and the positive results are due to Romania's agricultural potential, increased production, as well as investments in infrastructure and state-of-the-art tools made in recent years by large companies operating in...

GlobalG.A.P. compliance has often become a key requirement for farmers to access high-value global markets. Yet, the global spread of certification is highly uneven among countries. We assess the drivers and dynamics behind these unequal patterns, applying panel data regressions. Findings show...

Innovations are fast changing the agricultural landscape driven by the increasing need to shift towards sustainable practices without sacrificing the productivity and profitability of farming. Innovations in technology, institutions, processes, and products have contributed to the growth of...

The last decade has witnessed an increase in the interest in agricultural land in developing countries. While a great deal of attention has been paid to understanding the impacts of this increased interest in agricultural land, very little is known about how local smallholder communities are...

Despite attention being paid to quality management in the literature, little empirical research has been conducted on developing the link between adoption of quality management approach and business performance in agricultural enterprises, and moreover, only a few empirical studies have...

The social responsibility of agribusiness is currently one of the highly debated issues. Factors such as the globalization of agri-food supply chains, increasing competition, further integration of Ukraine in Europe and the world market, developments of Ukrainian large scale farms as well as...

Value chain development (VCD) has become a popular policy instrument to help farmers in developing countries access markets. While VCD initiated by the private sector has received much attention in the literature, there is yet little research on public-led VCD. This paper pro-vides a...

The objective of the paper is to understand the process of designing a multi-stakeholder partnership in the adoption of sustainable innovations in value chains. More specifically, the focus is on the design of feasible types of horizontal agreements and contractual formulas to be implemented in...

Globally, food systems have become heavily industrialized and are currently threatening both environmental sustainability and human health. Feeding a growing world while remaining within safe social-ecological planetary boundaries, as dictated by the UN Social Development Goals and the Paris...

Smallholder farmers are excluded from efficient and effective participation in high-value agro-food market chains due to major competitiveness constraints and several market failures along these chains. The purpose of this study is to contribute to the competitiveness of smallholder farmers in a...

The Chinese agri-food industry is evolving into an imperfectly competitive market in our observation. The issue deserves more attention from the policymakers since any negligible departure from the perfectly competitive market in agriculture would generate enormous extra profits for firms and...

The agriculture and food sector in India employ a significant proportion (about 44 percent) of the workforce, the majority of whom are not very educated and lack formal or informal skill training. Hence, they are unable to make the most out of their occupation. About 67 percent of the population...

The paper aims to present the trade relations with agri-food products between the Republic of Moldova and Romania during the period 2000 – 2018. Being neighbouring countries, connected not only through the existing border, but also through common historical aspect, the trade with agri-food...

The Romanian agri-food trade has registered a permanent deficit during the last three decades (with a brief exception period, 2013-2014). The deficit was deepened by the negative trade balance with the EU countries, but since 2010, the deficit has been partially offset by the trade surplus with...