How are vegetables and fruits delivered to supermarkets in the Global South? The interrelation between the expansion of supermarket-chains and the development of procurement systems / intermediaries for fresh products

蔬菜和水果如何运送到南半球的超市？

• 批准号: 319110025
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Elmar Kulke
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Geographisches Institut
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2015-12-31 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/319110025?language=en
• 关键词: How; vegetables; fruits; delivered; supermarkets

Supermarket-chains from the Global North expanded to countries of the Global South during the last decade. Especially those countries which realised an economic growth process - which generated an increasing market potential - were targets of this expansion. A very young trend is the development of national supermarket-chains in the Global South; there are some preliminary results concerning their spatial and temporal expansion patterns. And several studies have analysed the impact on agricultural production based on the integration in supermarket-chains. But up to now there is very limited knowledge about the procurement system and the development of intermediaries between agricultural production and the supermarkets. Especially for fresh products (vegetables, fruits) it is challenging to develop these systems, because of the infrastructural limitations in these countries. The planned project will analyse the interdependencies between the spatial-temporal expansion process of national supermarket-chains and the development of procurement systems/intermediaries for fresh products based on case studies in Kenya and Tanzania.

在过去的十年中，来自全球北方的超市连锁店扩展到了全球南方的国家。特别是那些实现了经济增长进程的国家-产生了越来越大的市场潜力-是这种扩张的目标。一个非常年轻的趋势是在全球南方国家超市连锁店的发展，有一些关于其空间和时间的扩展模式的初步结果。一些研究分析了超市连锁店一体化对农业生产的影响。但迄今为止，对采购制度和农业生产与超级市场之间的中间商发展的了解非常有限。特别是对于新鲜产品（蔬菜，水果），由于这些国家的基础设施有限，开发这些系统具有挑战性。计划中的项目将根据肯尼亚和坦桑尼亚的案例研究，分析国家超级市场链的时空扩展过程与新鲜产品采购系统/中介机构的发展之间的相互依存关系。