abstract: 'Rapidly expanding world fruiticulture markets provide developing country

  producers with new income opportunities and much development literature

  and policy is orientated towards facilitating export production in these

  countries. However, it has been widely observed that the global retail

  revolution is accelerating the exclusion of small producers from export

  markets and (increasingly) from many domestic retail chains due to

  rising entry barriers. Small producers are thus often only able to sell

  their produce on to relatively low price traditional markets. This paper

  is based on data collected from a recently emerged fruiticulture sector

  in north-east Brazil. It shows that (a) export fruiticulture does

  generate significant economic benefits, (b) that modern domestic retail

  markets are increasingly demanding and exclusionary, but also, and

  counter to much of the literature concerned with export promotion, that

  (c) small-farms producing fruiticulture products for traditional

  domestic markets do generate positive local economic impacts.

  Policymakers should, therefore, consider new ways of assisting smaller

  producers to enter these markets.'
affiliation: 'Selwyn, B (Corresponding Author), Univ Sussex, Sch Global Studies, Dept
  Int Relat, Brighton BN19SN, E Sussex, England.

  Univ Sussex, Sch Global Studies, Dept Int Relat, Brighton BN19SN, E Sussex, England.'
author: Selwyn, Ben
author_list:
- family: Selwyn
  given: Ben
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1080/09692290.2011.633850
eissn: 1466-4526
files: []
issn: 0969-2290
journal: REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
keywords: 'Latin America; Brazil; fruiticulture; small producers; global retail

  revolution; upgrading; global commodity chains; economic development'
keywords-plus: WAGE WORK; HORTICULTURE; FLEXIBILITY; CONTRACTS; GENDER
language: English
month: FEB 1
number: '1'
number-of-cited-references: '54'
pages: 153-179
papis_id: ce5ee0340796edcad5679d45c227e9d7
ref: Selwyn2013globalretail
times-cited: '6'
title: The global retail revolution, fruiticulture and economic development in north-east
  Brazil
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000314156400006
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usage-count-since-2013: '20'
volume: '20'
web-of-science-categories: Economics; International Relations; Political Science
year: '2013'