Thomas Reardon, C. Peter Timmer, Christopher B. Barrett, Julio A. Berdegué
Supermarkets are traditionally viewed by development economists, policymakers, and practitioners as the rich world's place to shop. The three regions discussed here have a great majority of the poor on the planet. But supermarkets are no longer just niche players for rich consumers in the capital ci...
Ricardo Hernández, Ben Belton, Thomas Reardon, Chaoran Hu et al.
The study has produced a single, powerful finding: the fish value chain in Bangladesh is growing and transforming very rapidly, in all segments. (1) The quiet revolution in the fish value chain is a domestic market revolution: 94% of aquaculture production is destined for domestic consumption. (2) T...
Thomas Reardon, Kevin Z. Chen, Bart Minten, Lourdes Adriano et al.
There is a rapid transformation afoot in the rice value chain in Asia. The upstream is changing quickly-farmers are undertaking capital-led intensification and participating in burgeoning markets for land rental, fertilizer and pesticides, irrigation water, and seed, and shifting from subsistence to...
Bart Minten, K. A. S. Murshid, Thomas Reardon
In Dhaka, the share of the less expensive coarse rice is shown to be rapidly decreasing in rice markets and it thus seems that the role of rice as only a cheap staple food is being redefined. The increasing demand for the more expensive varieties is seemingly associated with a more important off-far...
Chaoran Hu, Xiaobo Zhang, Thomas Reardon, Ricardo Hernández
Farmers adopting and implementing innovations, such as new technologies and new products, often require “collaborative inter-segment innovation” by other actors in other segments of the value chain, such as wholesalers implementing new product innovations such as supply of commercial fish feed and c...
Bart Minten, Thomas Reardon, Sunipa Das Gupta, Dinghuan Hu et al.
Abstract Purpose Wastage and post-harvest losses in food value chains are becoming increasingly debated and policies are being increasingly designed to reduce food wastages. Despite its presumed importance, there is large variation in the importance and type of food losses and wastage. We identify t...
Thomas Reardon, Titus O. Awokuse, Ben Belton, Lenis Saweda O. Liverpool‐Tasie et al.
• Outsource agricultural service enterprises emerged a century ago in high-income countries and in the past several decades in developing regions. • These services help farmers adapt to international and domestic agrifood value chains in the commoditization and product differentiation phases of the ...
Thomas Reardon, Lenis Saweda O. Liverpool‐Tasie, Ben Belton, Michael Dolislager et al.
Abstract There is an international consensus that Africans consume less fruits and vegetables (FV), and animal products (AP) than they need for adequate nutrition, and that production and supply chains of these products are constrained. Yet, in this paper, we show that despite these problems, there ...
Bart Minten, K. A. S. Murshid, Thomas Reardon
In Bangladesh—one of the poorest countries in Asia, where rice accounts for almost 70 percent of consumers' caloric intake—the share of the less expensive, low-quality coarse rice is shown to be rapidly decreasing in rice markets and the quality premium for the best-quality rice has been consisten...
Thomas Reardon, Bart Minten, Kevin Chen, Lourdes Adriano
This paper reports the survey findings that rice value chains are transforming in Bangladesh and India. The main elements of the transformation are as follows: First, rice value chains in both countries have begun to “geographically lengthen” and “intermediationally shorten.” Second, farmers capture...
Bart Minten, K. A. S. Murshid, Thomas Reardon, Minten, Bart et al.
In Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh—one of the poorest countries in Asia, where rice accounts for almost 70 percent of consumers’ caloric intake—the share of the less expensive coarse rice is shown to be rapidly decreasing in rice markets and the quality premium for the fine rice has been consistent...
Hazrat Ali, Ben Belton, Mohammad Mahfujul Haque, Ricardo Hernández et al.
Abstract The rapid growth of aquaculture in Bangladesh over the past 30 years has been accompanied by a proliferation of wholesalers. Wholesalers are often assumed in academic and public discourse to be exploitative and inefficient: extracting rents rather than driving technological change. This vie...
Ricardo Hernández, Ben Belton, Thomas Reardon, Chaoran Hu et al.
There are two strands in the socioeconomic literature on aquaculture. The first, which we call “micro socioeconomics,” is work centered on the role of farm households as fish producers, and the impacts of aquaculture on rural communities where aquaculture takes place. This strand can be divided into...
Ricardo Hernández, Ben Belton, Thomas Reardon, Chaoran Hu et al.
The majority of literature on aquaculture in Bangladesh focuses on “microsocioeconomics†and “value chains†(VCs) and tends to have a static perspective. However, this approach is at odds with several important emerging trends (Ali 1997; Ali, Haque, and Belton 2013). First, aquaculture is grow...
Thomas Reardon, Reardon, Thomas
Myanmar faces a set of well-known challenges and problems, both in the overall economy and in rural areas in general and in agriculture. But Myanmar is also in one of the most blessed situations on the planet to expect rapid growth and poverty alleviation: it is next to (literally surrounded by) the...