Rural food supply chains

Sustainable food value chains can offer important pathways out of poverty for the millions of small farms in developing countries. The need to concentrate state support for the development of small farms is proved in the article. The results of the cluster analysis of small farms show that it is advisable to send state support to the development of farms in which revenues are generated from the sale of crop products, as well as from other crop products - "niche" products and animal husbandry.

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For the national economy of developing countries it is crucial to increase the domestic added value in their supply chains. Especially in rural food supply chains there are mostly SMEs involved which suffer from a limited access to financial services. To overcome the challenge of financing, a multi agent system is applied.

9p vistephenhawking 26-04-2022 10 1   Download

The study provides a comprehensive picture of the animal feed sector in Vietnam (both supply and demand side) upon data collected from 2 main surveys: feed mill survey investigating the supply side and producer survey investigating the demand side. The results show that, on the supply side, SMEs appear to have less competitiveness than large ones. That is reflected in some aspects such as higher production costs per kg output, using more labor, limited quality control, limited access to capital and land, and many small enterprises have losses.

6p tam_xuan 02-03-2012 80 4   Download