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- Title
Modern Food Supply Chains and Development: Evidence from Horticulture Export Sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Authors
Maertens, Miet; Minten, Bart; Swinnen, Johan
- Abstract
The global food system is undergoing rapid processes of transformation and modernisation. This is causing important changes in developing-country food supply chains, particularly in supermarket-driven and high-value export chains, but the welfare implications of these changes are poorly understood. This article analyses and compares the welfare effects in different horticulture export chains in sub-Saharan Africa, disentangling different types of effects and the channels through which rural households are affected. Its main conclusion is that increased high-value exports and the modernisation of export supply chains can bring about important positive welfare effects, which can occur in various ways through product- or labour-market effects and through direct and indirect effects.
- Subjects
SUB-Saharan Africa; FOOD supply; SUPPLY chains; INTERNATIONAL trade; SUPPLY &; demand; PRODUCE trade
- Publication
Development Policy Review, 2012, Vol 30, Issue 4, p473
- ISSN
0950-6764
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-7679.2012.00585.x