Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/204369 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IFRO Working Paper No. 2014/01
Publisher: 
University of Copenhagen, Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO), Copenhagen
Abstract: 
This paper explores the interaction between food standards and vertical coordination in the Vietnamese pangasius sector. For farmers and processors alike, the adoption of standards is motivated by a desire to improve market access by ensuring high quality supply. Instead of encouraging the application of standards and contract farming, processing companies prefer to vertically integrate primary production largely due to concerns over the stable supply of pangasius with satisfactory quality and safety attributes. These tendencies increase the market dominance of industrial farming and worsen the position of small household farms.
Subjects: 
food standards
motivation
vertical coordination
pangasius
Vietnam
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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