JEL | 四位AAEA Fellow联袂发表有关农业食物价值链革命的综述文章

Journal of Economic Literature （JEL）是美国经济学会AEA系列期刊之一，是经济学界著名的专门发表综述类文章的期刊，经济学常用的JEL Code就源自该刊。近期， 四位AAEA Fellow联袂在JEL上发表了题为“Agri-food Value Chain Revolutions in Low-and Middle-Income Countries”的综述文章，包括：

• Christopher B. Barrett

• Thomas Reardon

• Johan Swinnen

• David Zilberman

Abstract

Agri-food value chains (AVCs) intermediate the flow of products between largely rural farmers, fisherfolk, or herders and increasingly urban consumers. The theoretical models that historically structured research on the economic development process assumed away AVC functions, however, and AVC firms and workers were necessarily omitted from the household data that generated most empirical findings in the agricultural and development economics literatures. As a result, the discipline has somewhat overlooked the rapid growth and structural change in AVCs over the past few decades that turned AVCs into major employers and sources of value addition, as well as key loci for technology transfer and foreign investment. This paper offers an integrated, structured, empirical narrative of how and why AVC revolutions occur in developing countries, the impacts of those changes, and the abundant economic research opportunities these structural changes afford economists.

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https://www.aeaweb.org/content/file?id=13546

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