I'm looking for relevant papers (a review would be greatful) in regard to small farms participation to supply chains. I'm interested in structural problems, such as transaction costs and/or food safety and quality magement, and marketing opportunities, products' design and customer satisfaction.
Dear Eugenio,
These three papers give a good summary, but 2 are focused on developing countries:
Labarthe, P., Laurent, C., 2013. Privatization of agricultural extension services in the EU: Towards a lack of adequate knowledge for small-scale farms? Food Policy 38, 240-252.
Poole, N.D., Chitundu, M., Msoni, R., 2013. Commercialisation: A meta-approach for agricultural development among smallholder farmers in Africa? Food Policy 41, 155-165.
Poulton, C., Dorward, A., Kydd, J., 2010. The Future of Small Farms: New Directions for Services, Institutions, and Intermediation. World Development 38, 1413-1428.
Supplying local food systems is not only an opportunity for agricultural production, it affects all post-primary production activities like processing, distribution and retail. The spill-over effects of agricultural production destined to the markets in proximity thus have a multiplication effect on the local community by generating employment opportunities. Public support to short food supply chains and local food systems could help maximizing benefits in food safety and quality management, and marketing opportunities, products' design and customer satisfaction.
When it comes to Small farms SWOT, the constraint is mostly of the RESOURCES CRUNCH which shall affect the supply chain... there are many technological support that features to facilitate the Strength and over come weakness in the system...
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Krishnan_Umachandran/contributions?ev=prf_act
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