Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies: Volume 11 Issue 4

Post-merger branding strategies and market power in the Brazilian brewing industry

Malú N.P.S. Cerqueira, Danilo R.D. Aguiar, Adelson Martins Figueiredo

The purpose of this paper is to investigate firm strategies and the exertion of market power in the brewing sector in Brazil following a merger between the two largest brewers…

Fiji's participation in the global coconut value chain: opportunities and challenges

Jessie Lin

This paper explores the institutional challenges and opportunities in Fiji's integration into the global value chain. Fiji is naturally endowed with coconut palms across its many…

Drivers of youth in cocoa value chain activities in Ghana

Franklin Nantui Mabe, Gideon Danso-Abbeam, Shaibu Baanni Azumah, Nathaniel Amoh Boateng, Kwadwo B. Mensah, Ethel Boateng

Cocoa is regarded as a brown-golden crop, but its value chain activities are dominated by the elderly. Hence, focussing attention on the young generation of farmers is the surest…

Striving for sustainable value chain establishment: a multiple feasibility analysis approach

Marie Ingrid Herman, Minh Thi Thai

Over the last decade, value chain for development has shown its bias towards global value chain approaches. This article proposes a holistic framework to carry out feasibility…

Vertical coordination in the Chinese grape market

Linda Bitsch, Shuo Li, Jon H. Hanf

Regarding the global development of the wine industry, China has gained a notable share in terms of wine consumption, and its domestic wine production has increased steadily since…

Shortage of pulses in India: understanding how markets incentivize supply response

Mathew Abraham, Prabhu Pingali

This paper aims to understand the significant farm and market-level factors that incentivize the adoption and marketing of pulses influencing its supply response to changing…