The Role of Digital Platforms in Disrupting Agricultural Value Chains in Developing Countries

2019 ◽  
pp. 231-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bookie Ezeomah ◽  
Richard Duncombe
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Digital Platforms

Technical Change, the Shifting ‘Terrain of the Industrial’, and Digital Industrial Policy

2020 ◽  
pp. 368-393
Author(s):  
Antonio Andreoni
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Structural Change ◽  
Industrial Policy ◽  
Technical Change ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Industrial Ecosystem ◽  
Technology Platforms ◽  
Key Enabling Technologies

Technical change is a major driver of structural transformation and industrial mutations within and across sectors of the economy. We show how, by deploying different concepts of sector—commodity/product, production/technology, or location-based taxonomies—we can better capture the heterogeneity of production activities, shifting sectoral boundaries, industrial mutations, sources of technical change, and non-linear patterns of structural change. These are important dimensions for industrial policy targeting. We analyse these technological dynamics with an industrial ecosystem framework structured around several sectoral value chains underpinned by different technology platforms. Within this framework, we highlight the role of digital technologies alongside other key enabling technologies and discuss technological change trajectories and cross-sectoral diversification patterns. Against this background, we discuss the specific challenges of deploying digital technologies effectively faced by developing countries. To address these challenges and capture windows of digital opportunity, industrial policy must be articulated along both sectoral and cross-sectoral mission-oriented strategies.

Role of Agri-Food Value Chains in Bolstering Small and Marginal Farmers in India

2021 ◽  
pp. 134-150
Author(s):  
Dipanjan Kashyap ◽  
Sanjib Bhuyan
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Consumer Demand ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public And Private Sector ◽  
Food Value

India's agri-food value chains have been evolving over the last few decades to cater to the growing consumer demand for healthy, safe, and nutritious food. These value chains are increasingly getting integrated from production to marketing to cater to such demand. While large and/or commercial farmers have easy access to such modern food value chains, small and marginal farmers in India and other developing countries alike are unable to take advantage of the same. Focusing on improving the agri-food value chains, particularly for perishables, makes a strong case in India given most Indian farmers are small and marginal farmers and are unable to take advantage of economies of scale. It is encouraging that both public and private sector entities are getting engaged in connecting Indian farmers directly to the supply chains of various crops. However, more needs to be done to make the processes, particularly in the public sector, the least bureaucratic and more farmer-focused so that small and marginal farmers in particular, benefit widely.

scholarly journals Transnational Contract Law

2021 ◽  
pp. 512-530
Author(s):  
Klaas Hendrik Eller
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Contract Theory ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Global Value Chains ◽  
Contract Law ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Discursive Space ◽  
Digital Platforms

Contract is a central trope of transnational ordering. In the shadow of the various attempts to harmonize contract law at the transnational level (such as through UNIDROIT), the very institution of contract already forms the backbone of transnational interaction. Yet, as this chapter outlines, contract theory is for the most part ill-prepared to capture the constitutive role of contracts in the regulation and critique of transnational social institutions, such as global value chains or digital platforms. In such scenarios, beyond being geared toward efficiency between parties, contracts embody a plurality of rationalities and interests and form a discursive space. Albeit often in a fragile way, contracts emerge as equivalents of political institutions inasmuch as the state legal order no longer provides substantial background justice. The chapter surveys how realist and critical traditions in contract theory, in both their US and European variants, are presently being recalibrated to properly reconstruct transnational social conflicts.

Enhancing Africa's Agri-Value Chains Through Digital Platforms

2021 ◽  
pp. 91-120
Author(s):  
Immanuel Ovemeso Umukoro
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Stakeholder Approach ◽  
Technology Deployment ◽  
Food Market ◽  
The Right

Africa's food security may be at risk if food production does not increase, especially given that by 2023, African food market will more than triple in demand by moving from $300 billion to $1 trillion. However, country-specific interventions have not provided the desired impact towards guaranteeing food security. Across different agricultural value chains, wastages due to lack of access to markets, poor storage, lack of logistics, transport and power infrastructure, among several others. There is, however, the possibility of strengthening these value chains with the right technology deployment. This requires significant investment, which is most effective using collaborative stakeholder approach. The private sector has shown signs of resilience in investing in agriculture by finding the right business models such as digital platforms which are in themselves scalable businesses. Through an interrogative literature review and analysis of case studies, this chapter explores the role of digital platforms in enhancing diverse agricultural value chains across Africa.

scholarly journals Value chain system in agriculture: role of SPA

2020 ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Eugenia Karamouzi ◽  
Eleni Tsironi ◽  
Panopoulos Panagiotis
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Precision Agriculture ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
A Value ◽  
Private And Public

A value chain consists of the actors (private and public, including service providers) and the sequence of value-adding activities involved in bringing a product from production to the end-consumer. In agriculture they can be thought of as a “farm-to-fork” set of inputs, processes and flows. Agricultural businesses in developing countries offer an opportunity for market based economic development that creates benefits throughout value chains. Sustainable development in agricultural value chains of emerging economies could be of high relevance of Sustainable Precision Agriculture.

scholarly journals Local sourcing in developing countries: The role of foreign direct investments and global value chains

2019 ◽  
Vol 113 ◽  
pp. 73-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vito Amendolagine ◽  
Andrea F. Presbitero ◽  
Roberta Rabellotti ◽  
Marco Sanfilippo
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Global Value Chains ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Foreign Direct Investments ◽  
Local Sourcing

scholarly journals An Exploratory Analysis of the FAIRTRADE Certified Producer Organisations

World ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 442-455
Author(s):  
Giordano Ruggeri ◽  
Stefano Corsi
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Exploratory Analysis ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Regression Techniques ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Farmer Organisations

The main objective of this research was to provide an exploratory analysis of the Fairtrade producer organisations’ network, focusing mainly on the revenues that certified organisations derive from their participation in Fairtrade. Using descriptive statistics and regression techniques, we analysed the Fairtrade affiliated organisations from the comprehensive dataset on worldwide Fairtrade certified producers. The database comprises 1016 producer organisations and plantations, distributed in 65 developing countries during 2015 including all products and countries. We identified some features of farmer organisations that affect the creation of revenues, and we investigated the fraction of revenues that producer organizations derive from FT compared to their overall revenues. The results highlight the different approaches to FT by the certified organisations and do not reveal any dominance in terms of revenues by any type of producer organisations or by organisations involved in FT for the longest time. This research contributes to deepening the knowledge about Fairtrade operations and provide useful information to the debate on the role of Fairtrade in developing profitable value chains for producer organisations in developing countries.

Global Restructuring, Knowledge and Learning

2004 ◽  
pp. 66-76
Author(s):  
E. Hershberg
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Lower Cost ◽  
International Competitiveness ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Global Competitiveness ◽  
Global Restructuring ◽  
Intensive Exploitation ◽  
High Road

The influence of globalization on international competitiveness is considered in the article. Two strategies of economic growth are pointed out: the low road, that is producing more at lower cost and lower wages, with increasingly intensive exploitation of labor and environment, and the high road, that is upgrading capabilities in order to produce better basing on knowledge. Restrictions for developing countries trying to reach global competitiveness are formulated. Special attention is paid to the concept of upgrading and opportunities of joining transnational value chains. The importance of learning and forming social and political institutions for successful upgrading of the economy is stressed.

On retroeconomy

2017 ◽  
pp. 148-159
Author(s):  
V. Papava
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Detrimental Effect ◽  
International Competition ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Role Of The Government

This paper analyzes the problem of technological backwardness of economy. In many mostly developing countries their economies use obsolete technologies. This can create the illusion that this or that business is prosperous. At the level of international competition, however, it is obvious that these types of firms do not have any chance for success. Retroeconomics as a theory of technological backwardness and its detrimental effect upon a country’s economy is considered in the paper. The role of the government is very important for overcoming the effects of retroeconomy. The phenomenon of retroeconomy is already quite deep-rooted throughout the world and it is essential to consolidate the attention of economists and politicians on this threat.

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