Food supply chains are essential to food security in developing regions where today the great majority of food consumed is purchased from rural-urban, rural-rural, and urban-rural supply chains. Disrupting those supply chains means disrupting food security. Yet short-term climate shocks and...
Author(s)
Reardon, T.; Zilberman, D.
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG, Cham, Switzerland
Citation
Climate smart agriculture: building resilience to climate change, 2018, pp 335-351
COVID-19 has created high transaction costs and uncertainty in India's transformed food supply chains, putting food security at risk as 92% of food consumption in India is purchased, predominantly from the private sector. Government faces the challenge of marshalling resources between mitigating...
Author(s)
Reardon, T.; Ashok Mishra; Nuthalapati, C. S. R.; Bellemare, M. F.; Zilberman, D.
Publisher
Sameeksha Trust, Mumbai, India
Citation
Economic and Political Weekly, 2020, 55, 18,
Food supply chains are extremely important for food access and livelihoods across Africa, but their role is often overlooked and underappreciated. Under normal conditions, the gap between myth and reality can result in the design of policies and programs with limited or negative impacts on food...
Author(s)
Liverpool-Tasie, L. S. O.; Reardon, T.; Belton, B.
Publisher
Wiley, Oxford, UK
Citation
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2021, 43, 1, pp 205-224
We present a conceptual framework depicting the issues and strategies of a firm with an innovation (in product or technology or system). To "implement" the innovation in terms of procurement of feedstock (intermediate inputs), production and processing, and marketing, the innovating firm undertakes ...
Author(s)
Zilberman, D.; Lu Liang; Reardon, T.
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
Food Policy, 2019, 83, pp 289-297
The food security debate has focused largely on the farm sector and on trade. Relatively neglected or 'hidden' from mainstream debate are the middle segments (processing, logistics, wholesale) of agrifood value chains in developing countries - and yet this 'midstream' forms 30-40 per cent of the...
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK
Citation
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2015, 31, 1, pp 45-63
This overview paper introduces the special issue focused on links among innovation, food system transformation, and technology adoption in all segments of agrifood value chains from inputs to farming to post-harvest segments including logistics, wholesale, processing, and retail. We identify the...
Author(s)
Reardon, T.; Lu Liang; Zilberman, D.
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
Food Policy, 2019, 83, pp 285-288
Food systems comprise the segments of food production, processing, packaging, distribution, retail and consumption. Recent emphasis on the food system regards it as comprising a cluster of different kinds of value chains, including output, lateral, and research and development value chains. The...
Author(s)
Reardon, T.; Liverpool-Tasie, S.; Minten, B.
Publisher
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Rome, Italy
Citation
IFAD Research Series, 2022, 78, pp 30 pp.
Coronavirus disease 2019 and related lockdown policies in 2020 shocked food industry firms' supply chains in developing regions. Firms "pivoted" to e-commerce to reach consumers and e-procurement to reach processors and farmers. "Delivery intermediaries" copivoted with food firms to help them...
Author(s)
Reardon, T.; Heiman Amir; Lu, L.; Nuthalapati, C. S. R.; Vos, R.; Zilberman, D.
Publisher
Wiley, Boston, USA
Citation
Agricultural Economics, 2021, 52, 3, pp 459-475
Urbanization and economic development have made global agriculture increasingly differentiated. Many hinterland farms remain largely self-sufficient, while farms closer to markets become increasingly specialized and linked to agribusinesses. Both semi-subsistence and commercialized farms remain...
Author(s)
Masters, W. A.; Djurfeldt, A. A.; Haan, C. de; Hazell, P.; Jayne, T.; Jirström, M.; Reardon, T.
Publisher
Elsevier B. V., Amsterdam, Netherlands
Citation
Global Food Security, 2013, 2, 3, pp 156-165
There has been a rapid transformation of food supply chains in India over the past two decades. Modern retail sales are growing at 49 percent per year and quickly penetrating urban food markets and even rural markets. The food-processing sector is growing quickly while also concentrating and...
Author(s)
Reardon, T.; Minten, B.
Publisher
International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, USA
Citation
IFPRI - Discussion Papers, 2011, No.1115, pp v + 22 pp.