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10

2016

Thinking with Evidence: Seeking Certainty, Making Truth

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LASSNet Conference 2016(Fourth Edition)

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Sat, 10/12/2016 - 12:00am to Mon, 12/12/2016 - 12:00am

Schedule:

08:27 AM to 05:27 PM

Thinking with Evidence: Seeking Certainty, Making Truth

Mar

19

2015

Elusive Empowerment: Price Information and Disintermediation in Soybean Markets in Malwa, India

By Richa Kumar

Lack of information and multiple intermediaries have been seen as major obstacles preventing farmers from obtaining a higher price for their produce. Thus, providing information on market prices to farmers and removing intermediaries from the supply chain, have often been considered means to empower farmers. This article argues that intermediaries are integral to any market exchange and notions of disintermediation mask processes that are replacing one form of intermediation by another, usually a corporatized or more vertically integrated one.

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Thinking with Evidence: Seeking Certainty, Making Truth

Elusive Empowerment: Price Information and Disintermediation in Soybean Markets in Malwa, India

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