Rapid Reconnaissance Guidelines for Agricultural Marketing and Food System Research in Developing Countries
These RRA guidelines are organised in two sections. The first part examines the substance of RRA in agricultural marketing research: the main characteristics of RRA in food systems research, and some basic alternative approaches (Ch. 2), analytical frameworks for the study of commodity marketing systems (Ch. 3), key areas of investigation of commodity subsectors (Ch. 4), analysis of prices and marketing margins (Ch. 5), proxy variables and key indicators (Ch. 6), and non-market, institutional and non-economic factors in food systems (Ch. 7).