TY - BOOK
T1 - Rural development and the construction of new markets
A2 - Hebinck, P.G.M.
A2 - van der Ploeg, J.D.
A2 - Schneider, S.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This book focuses on empirical experiences related to market development, and specifically new markets with structurally different characteristics than mainstream markets. Europe, Brazil, China and the rather robust and complex African experiences are covered to provide a rich multidisciplinary and multi-level analysis of the dynamics of newly emerging markets. This book analyses newly constructed markets as nested markets. Although they are specific market segments that are nested in the wider commodity markets for food, they have a different nature, different dynamics, a different redistribution of value added, different prices and different relations between producers and consumers. Nested markets embody distinction viz-a-viz the general markets in which they are embedded. A key aspect of nested markets is that these are constructed in and through social struggles, which in turn positions this book in relation to classic and new institutional economic analyses of markets. These markets emerge as steadily growing parts of the farmer populations are dedicating their time, energy and resources to the design and production of new goods and services that differ from conventional agricultural outputs. The speed and intensity with which this is taking place, and the products and services involved, vary considerably across the world. In large parts of the South, notably Africa, farmers are ‘structurally’ combining farming with other activities. By contrast, in Europe and large parts of Latin America farmers have taken steps to generate new products and services which exist alongside ongoing agricultural production. This book not only discusses the economic rationales and dynamics for these markets, but also their likely futures and the threats and opportunities they face.
AB - This book focuses on empirical experiences related to market development, and specifically new markets with structurally different characteristics than mainstream markets. Europe, Brazil, China and the rather robust and complex African experiences are covered to provide a rich multidisciplinary and multi-level analysis of the dynamics of newly emerging markets. This book analyses newly constructed markets as nested markets. Although they are specific market segments that are nested in the wider commodity markets for food, they have a different nature, different dynamics, a different redistribution of value added, different prices and different relations between producers and consumers. Nested markets embody distinction viz-a-viz the general markets in which they are embedded. A key aspect of nested markets is that these are constructed in and through social struggles, which in turn positions this book in relation to classic and new institutional economic analyses of markets. These markets emerge as steadily growing parts of the farmer populations are dedicating their time, energy and resources to the design and production of new goods and services that differ from conventional agricultural outputs. The speed and intensity with which this is taking place, and the products and services involved, vary considerably across the world. In large parts of the South, notably Africa, farmers are ‘structurally’ combining farming with other activities. By contrast, in Europe and large parts of Latin America farmers have taken steps to generate new products and services which exist alongside ongoing agricultural production. This book not only discusses the economic rationales and dynamics for these markets, but also their likely futures and the threats and opportunities they face.
KW - plattelandsontwikkeling
KW - markten
KW - dynamica
KW - ontwikkelingseconomie
KW - landbouw
KW - economie
KW - middelen van bestaan
KW - plattelandssamenleving
KW - familiebedrijven, landbouw
KW - neveninkomsten
KW - nevenactiviteiten
KW - rural development
KW - markets
KW - dynamics
KW - development economics
KW - agriculture
KW - economics
KW - livelihoods
KW - rural society
KW - family farms
KW - supplementary income
KW - ancillary enterprises
U2 - 10.4324/9781315797519
DO - 10.4324/9781315797519
M3 - Book editing
SN - 9780415746342
T3 - Routledge ISS studies in rural livelihoods
BT - Rural development and the construction of new markets
PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY - London
ER -