 | 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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| | Recent world bank discussion papers |
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2.22 Food products, raw materials, production, marketing infrastructure, and marketing services have intrinsic technical and economic properties which, particularly in developing countries, frequently lead producers and marketing entities to experience severe problems related to production and market risk, inadequate or asymmetric information, transaction costs, logistics, and overall marketing costs. Each can therefore serve as major barriers to production, exchange, and coordination in commodity systems. In this section, we briefly discuss some of these intrinsic problems in food marketing-- problems which will commonly arise even in favorable policy environments.
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