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NEP: New Economics Papers
Agricultural Economics
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Edited by: Angelo Zago
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Universita degli Studi di Verona
Date: 2007-02-03
Papers: 5
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In this issue we have:
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1. Economic development capitalizing on brand agriculture :
turning development strategy on its head
Fujita, Masahisa
2. Trade, Standards, and Poverty: Evidence from Senegal
Miet Maertens; Jo F.M. Swinnen
3. Patterns of Land Market Developments in Transition
Jo F.M. Swinnen; Liesbet Vranken
4. Case Study of Applied LIP Approach/Activities in the
Philippines The Training Services Enhancement Project for
Rural Life Improvement (TSEP-RLI) Experience
Fementira, Graciana B.
5. ACCESSION TO THE EU: DID IT BOOST THE EXPORT COMPETITIVENESS
OF THE ESTONIAN FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRY?
Kristina Toming
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1. Economic development capitalizing on brand agriculture :
turning development strategy on its head
Fujita, Masahisa
This paper explores the possibilities of two unique Japanese
concepts ??? the One Village One Product Movement (OVOP) and
Michino Eki (or Roadside Stations) ??? as potential tools
for bridging the gap between cities and rural areas through
community-driven development. From the viewpoint of spatial
economics and endogenous growth theory, this paper considers both
OVOP and Michino Eki as rural development strategies of a broader
nature based on ???brand agriculture.?? Here, brand
agriculture represents a general strategy for community-based
rural development that identifies, cultivates and fully utilizes
local resources for the development of products or services
unique to a certain "village." Selected examples of OVOP and
Michino Eki from Japan and developing countries are introduced.
Keywords: Japan, Rural development, Brand agriculture,
Agricultural products, One village one product movement
OVOP), Michino eki
JEL: O13 Q10 Q16
Date: 2006-11
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:jet:dpaper:dpaper76&r=agr
2. Trade, Standards, and Poverty: Evidence from Senegal
Miet Maertens
Jo F.M. Swinnen
An emerging literature on standards, global supply chains, and
development argues that enhanced quality and safety standards are
major trade barriers for developing country exports and cause the
marginalization of small businesses and poor households in
developing countries. This paper is the first to quantify income
and poverty effects of such high-standards trade and to integrate
labor market effects, by using company and household survey data
from the vegetable export chain in Senegal. First, horticultural
exports from Senegal to the EU have grown sharply over the past
decade, despite strongly increasing food standards in the EU.
Second, these exports have strong positive effects on poor
households? income. We estimate that these exports reduced
regional poverty by around 12 percentage points and reduced
extreme poverty by half. Third, tightening food standards induced
structural changes in the supply chain including a shift from
smallholder contract-based farming to large-scale integrated
estate production. However, these changes mainly altered the
mechanism through which poor households benefit: through labor
markets instead of product markets. Moreover, the impact on
poverty reduction is stronger as the poorest benefit relatively
more from working on large-scale farms than from contract farming.
These findings challenge several basic arguments in this
research field.
Date: 2006
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:lic:licosd:17706&r=agr
3. Patterns of Land Market Developments in Transition
Jo F.M. Swinnen
Liesbet Vranken
Transition countries provide a natural experiment to study the
development of land markets. This paper provides survey-evidence
of the variation in the development of land markets, identifies a
series of patterns, and provides a set of hypotheses to explain
these variations in land market development.
Date: 2007
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:lic:licosd:17907&r=agr
4. Case Study of Applied LIP Approach/Activities in the
Philippines The Training Services Enhancement Project for
Rural Life Improvement (TSEP-RLI) Experience
Fementira, Graciana B.
Keywords: Rural life improvement, Human resource development,
Quality of life, Rural societies, Human resources,
Philippines
JEL: I3 R1
Date: 2006-10
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:jet:dpaper:dpaper20&r=agr
5. ACCESSION TO THE EU: DID IT BOOST THE EXPORT COMPETITIVENESS
OF THE ESTONIAN FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRY?
Kristina Toming
This paper seeks to answer the question about whether the
investments made by Estonian food processing companies to meet
the EU?s strict hygiene and structural requirements have
enhanced their competitiveness and opened up better export
opportunities to the EU-15 market. Enhanced competitiveness means
not only larger export volumes, but also redirection of exports
towards higher value-added products. The current study focuses on
the milk, meat and fish industries, concluding that in general,
foodstuffs exports to the EU-15 have increased, but only the milk
processing industry has experienced a shift towards value-added
consumer products. This shows that the Estonian food industry has
not (yet) been able to reap the benefits of the EU market, and
further investments in product development and quality, as well
as in larger production volumes are necessary.
Keywords: ___
Date: 2006
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:mtk:febawb:47&r=agr
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