Ashok Gulati, Nicholas Minot, Cecília Delgado, Siddheswar Bora
This chapter describes the growth of high-value agriculture, its direct implications for the restructuring of the agricultural supply chains (including the emergence of contract farming and other forms of vertical coordination) and its indirect implications for the role of small farmers. The chapter...
Shahidur Rashid, Nicholas Minot, Solomon Lemma
Abstract The rapid growth in aquaculture production, globally and in Bangladesh is well documented. Over 2000–2010, per capita production of aquaculture grew 76%, while the consumer price of fish declined 45%. Previous studies have suggested pro‐poor effects of aquaculture based on fish production a...
Nicholas Minot, Shahadat Hossain, Razin Kabir, Paul A. Dorosh et al.
Price instability is a fact of life. In a market economy, domestic prices change in response to changes in supply, consumer preferences, policy, world prices, and other factors. Crop prices tend to be particularly volatile because harvests occur only once or a few times per year and because the size...
Shahidur Rashid, Nicholas Minot, Solomon Lemma
The impressive growth in aquaculture is now commonly dubbed a “blue revolution.†In some Asian countries, fish availability has increased at a faster rate in recent decades than did cereal availability during the Green Revolution. As an example, Bangladesh is one country where aquaculture has inc...
Paul A. Dorosh, Nicholas Minot, Razin Kabir, Shahadat Hossain
Bangladesh has a complex rice value chain consisting of farmers, upstream paddy wholesalers and intermediaries, millers, and downstream rice traders, wholesalers and retailers. Each of these actors serve distinct functions and have lines of trade that affect their stock turnover in different ways. T...
Nicholas Minot, Sk Abdul Rashid, Solomon Lemma, Minot, N. et al.
The rapid growth in aquaculture production, globally and in Bangladesh is well documented. Over 2000-2010, per capita production of aquaculture grew 76%, while the consumer price of fish declined 45%. Previous studies have suggested pro-poor effects of aquaculture based on fish production and consum...