Small Farmer Organizations to get access to dynamic markets in Developing Countries

International Workshop, Montpellier April 26-27, 2007

Papers presented at the workshop available at http://www.montpellier.inra.fr/moisa/moisa/us/manifestations.htm

1. Estelle Bienabe, Hester Vermeulen
"New trends in supermarkets procurement system in South Africa: the case of local procurement schemes from small-scale farmers by rural-based retail chain stores"
Discussants: Ludovic Temple and Ruerd Ruben

2. Paule Moustier, Phan Thi Giac Tam, Dao The Anh, Vu Trong Binh and Nguyen Thi Tan Loc
"Efficiency of Farmer Organisations in Supplying Supermarkets with Quality Food in Vietnam"
Discussants: Gian Nicola Francesconi and Sylvaine Lemeilleur

3. Sylvaine Lemeilleur, Céline Bignebat and Jean-Marie Codron
"Marketing cooperative vs Producer's agent: the Turkish dilemma in modern ffv market"
Discussants: Linxiu Zhang and Mike Cook

4. David Neven, Thomas Reardon, Dave Weatherspoon and Rose Hopkins
"South Africa's Rural Poor in the Era of Supermarkets: The Role of Commercial Farmers in Adaptive Organizational, Institutional and Technological Responses to Access and Compete in Dynamic Markets"
Discussant: Selma Tozanli

5. Linxiu Zhang, Jikun Huang and Li Qiang, Scott Rozelle
"Farmers Professional Associations in Rural China :State Domination or New State-Society Partnerships ?"
Discussants: Elodie Maitre d'Hotel and Dao The Anh

6. Gian Nicola Francesconi and Ruerd Ruben
" Pros and Cons of Agri-Cooperatives in Emerging Markets Evidence from Dairy in Ethiopia "
Discussants: Eric Leonard and David Neven

7. Mike Cook and Molly Chambers
"Role of Agricultural Cooperatives in Global Netchains"
Discussants: Pierre-Marie Bosc and Céline Bignebat

8. Ruerd Ruben
"Cooperatives in the supply chains endogenous organizational responses to global markets"
Discussants: Pierre-Marie Bosc and Céline Bignebat

9. Elodie Maitre d'Hotel and Pierre-Marie Bosc
"Adaptive capabilities, pathdependence and institutional change: insights from an empirical work on rural producers organizations"

10. Julio Berdegue and Thomas Reardon
"Variety of products, SFO's,Chile and Central America, local and regional markets"

11. Hamish Gow
"A piece on armenia"