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Publications on value-chains

Certification in the value chain for fresh fruits – The example of banana industry
Pascal Liu. 2009
This report deals with voluntary certification schemes, with a particular focus on those that use an on product label targeting consumers and have the potential to generate a price premium.

Governance, coordination and distribution along commodity value chains
Rome, 4-5 April 2006
This set of proceedings of the workshop is published to assist in understanding the implications of the developments in agricultural value chains and in the analysis of value chains by economists, from a competitive market structure to one where market players are characterised by varying degrees of market power.

Governance, coordination and distribution along commodity value chains, Rome, 2007

  Introductory Note, Brian Moir

  PART 1: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES OF MARKET STRUCTURE IN AGRICULTURAL COMMODITY VALUE CHAINS

  • Market Control and Competition Ιssues along the Commodity Value Chain, Nikolaos Vettas
  • Trade Liberalisation under Imperfect Competition in Commodity Markets, Steve McCorriston
    The Fall and Rise of Vertical Coordination in Commodity Chains in Developing and Transition Countries, Miet Maertens and Johan F.M. Swinnen
  • Contracting Issues at Various Levels of the Value Chain, Doyle Baker and Carlos Da Silva

 PART 2: INSTITUTIONAL AND STRUCTURAL ISSUES IN COMMODITY MARKETS

  • Standards and Supply-Chain Coordination - Impact on Small-Scale Producers, Kees van der Meer and Laura Ignacio
  • Supermarkets, Horticultural Supply Chains, and Small Farmers in Central America, Thomas Reardon, Julio Berdegué,Luis Flores, Fernando Balsevich and Ricardo Hernández
  • Transmission of Price Signals and the Distribution of Revenues along the Commodity Supply Chains: Review and Applications, David Hallam and George Rapsomanikis
  • Estimating the Pass-Through of Agricultural Policy Reforms: an Application to Brazilian Commodity Markets, Jonathan Brook, Olga Melyukhina, Alastair Bailey and Kelvin Balcombe

 PART 3: FARMERS AND COMMODITY DEVELOPMENT

  • The determinants of investments in coffee trees in Uganda, Ruth Vargas Hill
  • Market and other Constraints to Smallholder Coffee Development in Tanzania, Alexander Sarris and Sara Savastano
  • Assessing Small-holder Participation in Value Chains: the case of vegetables in Honduras and El Salvador, Mark Lundy, Roberto Banegas, Lourdes Centeño, Iván Rodríguez, Manuel Alfaro, Santos Hernández and José Ángel Cruz

 PART 4: CHANGING MARKET STRUCTURES AND DISTRIBUTIONAL ISSUES

  • Contracting, Competition and Rent Distribution in Commodity Value Chains, Johan F.M. Swinnen and Anneleen Vandeplas
  • Domestic traders versus global retail chains: Evidence from Madagascar, Bart Minten
  • Value Chain Analysis and Market Power in Commodity Processing with Application to the Cocoa and Coffee Sectors, Christopher L. Gilbert