Smallholder Farmers Market Options Within the Emerging Agri-Food Value Chain

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10.2991/978-94-6463-028-2_4How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Market upgrading; Value upgrading; Smallholder farmers; Agriculture

Abstract

Agriculture in Indonesia is facing challenges in the mid of agri-food value chain transformation. The transformation allows farmers to grow, however this also presented more barriers particularly for smallholder farmers with unfavorable characteristics. Unfortunately, these farmers are dominating agriculture in Indonesia. The objectives of this paper are to identify and describe market options for smallholder farmers and the value offered by the market and to identify and describe how smallholder farmers can participate in the emerging market. Relevant articles, reports, and thesis from the different regions were reviewed to gain and discuss information related to the topic. This paper showed that smallholder farmers have opportunities to participate in the different market chains and obtain value from them, such as local markets, supermarket chains, food manufacturer chains, and e-marketplaces. In fact, in certain conditions, the local market channels can be more beneficial for smallholder farmers. However, to increase their opportunity to participate within these market channels, they have to upgrade their production and governance form and this cannot be achieved without external support. It requires a supportive external environment such as infrastructures, financial access, and legislation. These can be provided by external agents from the government, Non-Government Organizations, research agencies, and private sectors. Furthermore, considering the emergence of e-commerce platforms in the agri-food value chain, it will be important to investigate how e-commerce platforms can help farmers to be more integrated with the emerging agri-food value chain system.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Shaf Rijal Ahmad
AU  - Kodrad Winarno
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/12
TI  - Smallholder Farmers Market Options Within the Emerging Agri-Food Value Chain
BT  - Proceedings of the International Symposium Southeast Asia Vegetable 2021 (SEAVEG 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 20
EP  - 28
SN  - 2468-5747
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-028-2_4
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-028-2_4
ID  - Ahmad2022
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