WDR background paper on retail-led transformation of agrifood systems : box focusing on whether the rise of supermarkets exclude small farmers | Rimisp - Latin American Center for Rural Development in the WDR2008 "Agriculture for Development" : assessment of its influence; final report; annex 1, documents commissioned by Rimisp for the WDR 2008
2007
Reardon, Thomas | Berdegué, Julio A.
When medium and large growers are not available or do not produce enough to meet the year round needs of supermarkets, in domestic-retail impact studies available so far, asset-poor small farmers are almost universally excluded from supplying supermarket chains. Only the top tercile of asset-rich small farmers tend to participate. The report examines domestic retail horticulture-impact studies and the “exclusion of the asset-poor.” Assets other than land play a role: the included have more education, more access to transport, greater prior holdings of irrigation; and other physical assets, such as wells, greenhouses, vehicles, and packing sheds.
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