Global Production Networks and Rural Development: Southeast Asia as a Fruit Supplier to China - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1800883870 ISBN 13: 9781800883871

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2021

Synopsis

Bill Pritchard provides an important update on how current trade methodologies are implemented as China becomes one of the world’s largest fresh fruit importers from countries such as Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. The book also looks at their distinctive trade aspects and what can be learnt from alternative practices carried out in other countries through the use of global production networks. An in-depth analysis provides the reader with a welcome insight into existing processes from production through to export, often through informal routes, with a marketing structure providing more power to the distributors and brokers and mixed effects on the farmers. Using empirical evidence from four countries, this book explores what could, and should, be implemented in this under-researched topic to aid rural development.

This will be an invaluable resource for researchers of human geography, international trade and Asian studies, particularly those with a focus on Southeast Asia and China.

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About the Author

Edited by Bill Pritchard, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, Australia

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1800883870
• ISBN 13: 9781800883871
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Pritchard Bill