期刊
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
卷 40, 期 6, 页码 719-732出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2009.00410.x
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N50; O13; O38; Q18; Agribusiness; Agricultural and food policy; Community; rural; urban development; Comparative economic history; Transition economics
In this article, I draw lessons from two quasi-natural experiments (the transition process in former Communist countries and the rapid globalization of food chains) on the optimality of farms and agricultural structures more generally. I argue that (a) the farm structures that have emerged from the transition process are much more diverse than expected ex ante; (b) this diversity is to an important extent determined by economic mechanisms which are influenced by initial conditions and reform policies; (c) non-traditional farm structures have played an important role during transition because they were optimal to address the specific institutional and structural constraints imposed by the transition process; (d) there is more diversity than often argued in the farms that are integrated in global food chains; (e) endogenous institutional (contracting) innovations in food chains may lock existing farm structures in a long-run institutional framework; and (f) indicators based on farm structures are not a good measure of welfare effects of the globalization of food chains.
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