Specifying the structure of the soybean-meat value chain: a taxonomical approach

As family’s income around the world has been increasing in recent years, the demand for chicken meat and pork has been growing. Moreover, this trend is expected to continue in the next decades. In the other hand, world’s soybean production is also forecasted to increase at a steady rate in the next decades. Despite that soybean is a crucial primary input in meat production, very often the research found in literature does not consider the complete value chain from soybean to meat production. This approach hinders the possibility to study the interaction between soybean and meat production. This thesis takes an alternative approach and examine the soybean-meat value chain at a global scale. The main purpose of this work was to provide a specification of the soybean-meat value chain, and ultimately explain the soybean-meat relationship at the country level. In this purpose global value chain (GVC) analysis, cluster analysis, and regression analysis were combined into one research methodology that is proposed as a more robust alternative to traditional GVC analysis. The analysis permitted to provide a description of the soybean-meat GVC and to develop a taxonomy of the archetypal value-adding strategies used by countries to produce meat. Different strategies to produce meat were found. In this context, it was evidenced that soybean production is not a necessary nor sufficient condition to produce meat at the country level. Having access (through a GVC) to soybean meal and soybean is then the necessary condition to produce meat. Meat production at the country level was found to be mainly determined by the domestic meat demand.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.S.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Agricultural & Applied Economics

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Bautista Chaparro, Andres Alberto

Contributors dc:contributor

• Goldsmith, Peter D.

• agribusiness
• soybean
• value chain
• cluster analysis

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2015 Andres Bautista Chaparro

Language dc:language

en

Handle dc:identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/88197

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/88197