Presentation materials
Keywords : competition, dairy, supply chain, farm outcomes
Introduction
The dairy sector in Punjab, India has been growing and transforming rapidly in response to rising demand for milk and the increased attention to quality and safety. Some (mostly small) dairy farmers have left the business, others have scaled up and modernized, and new (mostly large) farms have entered. At the...
Value chain development is a market-focused approach that addresses market constraints and facilitates linkages between rural producers and urban consumers along agri-food chains. Agri-food chains, on the one hand, serve to feed a growing urban population in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and on the other hand, provide income and business opportunities. Among small-scale farmers, commercialization...
Digital advancement has made the online marketing increasingly popular worldwide. A branch of e-commerce known as “social commerce” has emerged utilizing social networking sites like Facebook, Instagram etc. to exchange products and services. In Bangladesh Facebook based social commerce (“f-commerce”) is the most popular form of e-commerce.
In f-commerce, about 0.3 million entrepreneurs in...
The importance of a reliable agricultural trade system becomes especially apparent in times of crisis. Trade on well-integrated international markets can help to buffer shocks such as those experienced in 2007/08 and more recently following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. However, past research has suggested that international markets for important agricultural staples are less than perfectly...
