Transnational Sourcing Practices in Ghana's Perennial Crop Sectors

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doi:10.1111/j.1471-0366.2007.00164.x

Transnational Sourcing Practices in Ghana's Perennial Crop Sectors

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公開日: 2007-12-12

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10.1111/j.1471-0366.2007.00164.x

公開者: Wiley

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<jats:p> <jats:italic>Neo‐liberal policies increasingly affect African agricultural production and the influence and power of transnational agro‐food companies have deepened substantially since the turn of the century. As a consequence the conditions of transactions of many African export crops have been modified or changed completely. This paper examines the changes and emerging patterns of transnational buyers’ sourcing practices within four of Ghana's perennial crop sectors: cocoa, pineapple, oil palm and shea nut. The findings suggest that transnational sourcing practices are primarily determined by the need for immediate processing of the crop after harvest and that control over this process is essential for value adding via product differentiation. Different transnational sourcing practices have distinctive spatial outcomes reflected by new patterns of rural transformation within privately regulated territories.</jats:italic> </jats:p>