@article{Tam:9425,
      recid = {9425},
      author = {Tam, Phan Thi Giac and Anh, Dao The and Moustier, Paule  and Binh, Vu Trong and Thi, Nguyen and Loc, Tan},
      title = {Efficiency of Farmer Organisations in Supplying  Supermarkets with Quality Food in Vietnam},
      address = {2007},
      number = {688-2016-47158},
      series = {103rd EAAE Seminar 'Adding Value to the Agro-Food Supply  Chain in the Future Euromediterranean Space’'},
      pages = {18},
      year = {2007},
      abstract = {The development of supermarkets in Vietnam, as in other  emerging countries, goes along with an
increasing concern  on the part of purchasers for food quality. The paper  investigates whether
farmer organisations are able to help  small-scale farmers get access to supermarkets, and the  role
that supermarkets and public support play in their  emergence and development. It is based on
case studies  involving a number of stakeholders marketing vegetables,  flavoured rice and litchi
fruit in Vietnam. The interviews  investigated patterns of horizontal and vertical  coordination that
link farmers to supermarkets, the  distribution of costs and benefits between farmers and  traders
along the chains in relation to the strategy of  quality differentiation. Eight farmer associations
that  work in the form of private commercial organisations are  regular supermarket suppliers for
the selected products.  Their ability to supply supermarkets is related to the  combination of
functions they make available to their  members, especially as regards training to improve  quality
(appearance, taste, safety), quality promotion and  control, for which they receive public support,
as well as  their participation in flexible contracts with  supermarkets, shops and schools.
Supermarket supply through  farmer associations increases farmer incomes when compared  with
traditional chains, yet the situation is reported to  change with the increase in supermarket
competition. The  paper argues that changes in farmer organisation are not  only due to supplying
supermarkets, but also to public and  international support to food quality improvement,  which
have been of benefit to supermarkets.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/9425},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.9425},
}