Exporting High-Value Food Commodities: Success Stories from Developing Countries (WB, 1993, 119 p.): (introduction...)

Exporting High-Value Food Commodities: Success Stories from Developing Countries (WB, 1993, 119 p.)

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Foreword

Acknowledgments

Executive summary

I. Introduction

II. Economic and institutional issues in the marketing of high-value foods

Marketing high-value food products

Food commodity systems: Organization. coordination, and performance

Commodity system competitiveness

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Determinants of competitiveness

Generic barriers to entry and coordination in food commodity systems

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Food product technical characteristics

Food commodity production characteristics

Production support by marketing enterprises

Processing and distribution functions

Technologies, institutions. and other solutions to generic food marketing problems

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Technological measures

Laws, rules, and standards

Spot marketing trading

Reputations, brand names and advertising

Personalized trading networks

Brokerage

Contract coordination

Cooperatives/associations/voluntary chains

Vertical integration

Government intervention

III. Synthesis high-value food commodity system ''Success stories''

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Selected dimensions of commodity systems performance

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Cost advantages and product/service differentiation

Additional performance indicators

International market environment

Macroeconomic conditions. human capital. and infrastructure

Government support and interventions

Commodity system organization coordination

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Competitive structure

Institutional arrangements linking producers with processors/exporters

Institutional arrangements linking exporters with foreign markets

Foreign capital and technology in the case study subsectors

IV. Summary and lessons

Bibliography

Appendix The development and performance of case study commodity systems

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Mexico fresh tomatoes

Kenya 'off-season' and specialty fresh vegetables

Israel fresh citrus fruit

Brazil frozen concentrated orange juice

Chile temperate fruits and processed tomato products

Processed tomato products

Argentina beef

Thailand poultry

Thailand tuna

Chile fisheries

Cultured shrimp production and trade in China and Thailand

Soybean development in Brazil and Argentina

Demand-driven agricultural diversification in Taiwan (China)

Distributors of World Bank Publications

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Success Stories from Developing Countries

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Jacob Yaron is senior rural finance advisor in the World Bank's Agriculture and Rural Development.

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Successful rural finance institutions / Jacob Yaron. p. cm. —
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1. Development banks—Asia.
2. Rural credit—Asia.
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