Exporting High-Value Food Commodities: Success Stories from Developing Countries (WB, 1993, 119 p.): II. Economic and institutional issues in the marketing of high-value foods: Generic barriers to entry and coordination in food commodity systems: (introduction...)

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

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

Generic barriers to entry and coordination in food commodity systems

		*(introduction...)*
		Food product technical characteristics
		Food commodity production characteristics
		Production support by marketing enterprises
		Processing and distribution functions

(introduction...)

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.