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EU Agro-Food Chain and Vertical Integration Potentiality: a Strategy for Diversification?

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  • Ting Chang
  • Luca Iseppi

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This work utilizes Leontief input–output tables to establish, through new appropriate indicators (the new entry barriers and invasion indices), the strategy pursued by some branches of EU countries for diversifying production, so enriching thus the range of their secondary products. Our attention is focused on EU countries strategic perspectives of diversification by vertical integration, regarding in particular the potentiality of the main Agro-food Chain branches: “Agriculture, hunting and related services” and “Food and beverages”. In this context, we deal with the backward and forward linkages that are the expression of Agriculture and Food vertical integration potentialities through their secondary production in the main field of competence (core business) of the other that reaches a total of €55 billion. In this research, we observe some basic elements: (a) EU Agriculture takes advantage from the opportunity to diversify itself by vertical integration in the field of competence of Food and beverage. So Agriculture will ensure higher incomes and vital outlets for its survival. Food industry entry barriers are feeble and can be circumvented. (b) Food and beverages does not want or perhaps is not able to exploit the upstream integration potentiality with Agriculture due to the high entry barriers that the very Agriculture has built to isolate its core business (endogenous barriers) or that it suffers (exogenous barriers). On the contrary, it is not uncommon that Food industry invests in foreign agriculture and becomes involved in intra and extra-EU relocation diversifying itself in a context of multinational vertical integration. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2012

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  • Ting Chang & Luca Iseppi, 2012. "EU Agro-Food Chain and Vertical Integration Potentiality: a Strategy for Diversification?," Transition Studies Review, Springer;Central Eastern European University Network (CEEUN), vol. 19(1), pages 107-130, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:trstrv:v:19:y:2012:i:1:p:107-130
    DOI: 10.1007/s11300-012-0223-9
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    Keywords

    Diversification strategies; Vertical integration; Entry barriers; Agriculture; Food and beverage; E01; L16; E1; Q13;
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    JEL classification:

    • E01 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General - - - Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth; Environmental Accounts
    • L16 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics; Macroeconomic Industrial Structure
    • E1 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models
    • Q13 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Markets and Marketing; Cooperatives; Agribusiness

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