Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/184673 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Citation: 
[Editor:] Egilmez, Gokhan [Title:] Agricultural Value Chain [ISBN:] 978-1-78923-007-9 [Publisher:] IntechOpen [Place:] London [Year:] 2018 [Pages:] 181-197
Publisher: 
IntechOpen, London
Abstract: 
The economic breakdown of the early transition process weighed heavily on food supply relationships in the Eastern European and Central Asian (EECA) countries. Small and medium-sized farm suppliers and processors suffered from lack of necessary production inputs whereas processors and retailers faced problems of insufficient quantity and quality of supplies. At the same time, changes in consumer demand as well as the accompanying entry of foreign investors in the retail and processing sectors necessitated significant and lengthy reforms and adjustments in the structure of food commodity chains to overcome these problems. Based on an extensive literature overview and a synthesis of five case studies conducted upon the assignment of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, the current chapter demonstrates how small and mediumsized food processors manage to install effective procurement systems in weak institutional environments of EECA. The chapter also identifies the factors that drive small farmer-processor business linkages and their integration into national and international value chains in order to develop options for support and assistance.
Subjects: 
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
farm assistance
food chain
processors
smallholders
vertical coordination
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Document Version: 
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