With the increasing complexity of global food systems, producers in developing countries are faced with challenges associated with market access to developed and other developing countries. There is clear evidence that the fastest growing developing countries are the ones engaging in trade and participating in the global market. The difficulty for developing countries, especially Small and Medi...

While the adoption rate of electronic commerce by organizations has grown significantly over the years and that they have achieved substantial savings and benefits, it has also presented numerous new challenges for them to conduct business activities in the electronic environment. This trend has prompted a need for existing business models to be reviewed, including the adoption of appropriate e...

In the early 1990s, some 1400 collective farms were privatized in Hungary and became agribusinesses and other farm enterprises. An important step in privatization was the division of common property (cpd) among the members, and the choice of exiting individually or in groups with one's share, or of continuing in a successor farm enterprise as a shareholder. The study reports on privatization in...

Urbanization and economic development have made global agriculture increasingly differentiated. Many hinterland farms remain largely self-sufficient, while farms closer to markets become increasingly specialized and linked to agribusinesses. Both semi-subsistence and commercialized farms remain family operations, with the few successful investor-owned farms found mainly for livestock and crops ...

The spectrum of risks that affect the income of agricultural producers and agribusinesses is quite broad. The two predominant risks are: price risk, reflecting variations in market prices for agricultural commodities and production inputs; and production risk, which encompasses variations in the volume or quality of the commodity produced. This note focuses on one of the most pervasive producti...

Through a series of interpretative textual analysis on the sustainability related nonfinancial disclosures of two large agribusinesses in the People’s Republic of China, this paper intends to reveal how these reports are used to respond to institutional and social pressures, and how the firms are engaged in the struggle to shape the social reality in a way that serves their own interests. The f...

Purpose This article addresses the gap in understanding performance of emerging private agricultural advisory service (AAS) models developing country contexts, relation to their dual objectives supporting farmer-clients and becoming profitable agribusinesses themselves.Methodology Multiple case study Service Providers Enterprises (SPEs), an youth-led agribusiness model offering silage making ot...