Fulfilling the demand for food in urban and rural areas is vital. Given the changing preferences by consumers, trade ensures that these demands can be met at any point of production, locally or globally. This book explores the agriculture market and its functions. The book uses the value chain approach to explain how manufacturing, purchasing, and selling goods works in an agriculture market. The book further shows some mechanisms and factors considered in determining price of agriculture commodities and services. Given the politics involved in price determination, the book also offers some business models like cooperatives that make farming value chains more resilient and provide better quality products while still remaining competitive at a global level. The book also reviews some trade policies that may affect global trade. This book is quite elaborate for an audience needing some knowledge on agriculture trade and marketing, especially if one want to take advantage of global trade. The book can act as a guide in analyzing agriculture value chain based on the discussed factors.
Author(s): Nekesah T. Wafullah
Publisher: Delve Publishing
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 297
City: Burlington
Cover
Title page
Copyright
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgment
Preface
Chapter 1 Agricultural Marketing
1.1. Overview
1.2. Concept and Definitions of Market
1.3. Components of a Market
1.4. Dimensions of a Market
1.5. Market Structure
1.6. Agricultural Marketing Concept and Definition
1.7. Markets Classification
Chapter 2 Marketing Functions
2.1. Overview
2.2. Packaging
2.3. Transportation
2.4. Grading and Standardization
2.5. Storage and Warehousing
2.6. Processing
2.7. Buying and Selling
2.8. Market Information
2.9. Financing
Chapter 3 Agricultural Value Chain and Actors
3.1. Overview
3.2. Need for Agricultural Value Chains (AVCS)
3.3. Conditions for Success of AVCS
3.4. Factors to Consider When Stating an AVC
3.5. Farmer Groups and Value Chains
3.6. Role of Media in Value Chains
3.7. AVCS Upgrading
3.8. Gender and AVCS
3.9. Characterizing of the AVCS
3.10. Actors of AVC
Chapter 4 Agricultural Product Prices
4.1. Overview
4.2. Agricultural Prices Characteristics
4.3. Role of Prices
4.4. Approaches to Agricultural Price Determination
4.5. Pricing Objectives
4.6. Ways Markets Arrive at Prices (Price Discovery)
4.7. Government Intervention in Agricultural Price
Chapter 5 Agricultural Cooperatives
5.1. Overview
5.2. Origins and History
5.3. Types of Cooperatives
5.4. Underlying Principles of Cooperation
5.5. Common Cooperative Functions
5.6. Economic Concepts that May Encourage The Formation of Cooperatives
5.7. Limitations in Cooperatives
5.8. Cooperatives Equity and Debt Considerations
5.9. Legal Organization of Cooperatives
5.10. Cooperative Management Characteristics
5.11. Cooperative Influences on Public Policy
5.12. Relationships and Linkages Between Cooperatives Types
5.13. Sources for Additional Information on Cooperatives
5.14. Agricultural Marketing Cooperatives
Chapter 6 Agricultural Trade
6.1. Overview
6.2. Type of Trade
6.3. Structure and Trends in Agricultural Trade
6.4. Agricultural Policy Objectives and Instruments
6.5. Agriculture Commodity Trade Trends
Bibliography
Index
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