Foreign Direct Investment, Vertical Integration, and Local Suppliers: Evidence from the Polish Dairy Sector

Dries, Liesbeth; Swinnen, Johan

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2004.05.004

“…For example, Minten et al (2007) show that in Madagascar most FFV export production is on very small farms, often on a contract-basis with the agro-food industry, and with important positive effects on farmers' productivity. Similar results are found by studies in Asia (Gulati et al 2006) and in Eastern Europe (Dries and Swinnen, 2004).…”

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confidence: 90%

Trade, Standards, and Poverty: Evidence from Senegal

Maertens

¹

,

Swinnen

²

2009

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractThe debate on trade and poverty is reinforced by recent studies on the role of standards. It is argued that increasing standards act as trade barriers for developing countries and cause further marginalization of the poor. This paper is the first to quantify income and poverty effects of such high-standards trade and to integrate labor market effects, by using company and household survey data from the vegetable export chain in Senegal. We find that exports have grown sharply despite increasing standards, resulting in important income gains and poverty reduction. Our estimates indicate that poverty is 14 % points lower due to vegetable exports. Tightening food standards induced a shift from smallholder contract-based farming to large-scale integrated estate production, altering the mechanism through which poor households benefit: through labor markets instead of product markets. The impact on poverty reduction is stronger as the poorest benefit relatively more from working on large-scale farms than from contract farming.JEL Classification: F14; F16; I3; Q12; Q13; Q17

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“…Foreign direct investments (FDI) can play an important role in the internationalization of economies, including the agro-food sector and the development of rural areas (Dries and Swinnen 2004). The three analysed candidate countries gained the first experiences with the FDI inflows during the 1970s and 1980s.…”

Section: Foreign Direct Investmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agricultural and rural capital markets in Turkey, Croatia and the FYR of Macedonia

Bojnec¹

2012

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Th is paper analyses the agricultural and rural capital factor markets in the three European Union (EU) candidate countries: Turkey, Croatia and the Former Yugoslav Republic (FYR) of Macedonia. Agricultural and rural capital markets share similarities with the general capital market developments, but agricultural and rural capital markets are facing specifi c credit constraints related to agricultural assets and rural fi xed asset specifi cities, which constrain their mortgages and collateral use. Credit constraints form a limited access to the investment credits necessary for the restructuring of smallscale individual farms. Government transfers are used to diff ering extents in the diff erent candidate countries, but generally they tend to increase over time. Remittances and donor funds have also played an important role in the agricultural and rural economy investments.

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“…Investments in the up-and downstream segments of the value chains have played a key role in enhancing productivity, quality, technology upgrading and improved access to inputs and credit along the value chain, including for farms, in many transition countries (Gow & Swinnen, 1998;Dries & Swinnen, 2004, 2010. Restrictions for investments in this area are likely to hurt farmers and consumers at least as much than regulations and restrictions at the farm and consumer level.…”

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confidence: 99%

Cuba: Agricultural Transition and Food Security in a Global Perspective

Riera

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,

Swinnen

²

2015

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may AbstractThis paper reviews the situation in the agricultural sector and food security in Cuba and in particular the transformations that have (not) taken place since 1990. We compare the Cuban transition with transitions in other "transition countries" and show that Cuba does not fit easily in one of the transition patterns, and, in a way, has characteristics of "a bit of everything". To conclude, we discuss the (potential) effects of the recent policy changes.

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Foreign Direct Investment, Vertical Integration, and Local Suppliers: Evidence from the Polish Dairy Sector

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Trade, Standards, and Poverty: Evidence from Senegal

Trade, Standards, and Poverty: Evidence from Senegal

Agricultural and rural capital markets in Turkey, Croatia and the FYR of Macedonia

Cuba: Agricultural Transition and Food Security in a Global Perspective

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