Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles Article Faculty Publications -Articles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Supermarkets and Rural Inequality in India: A Case Study of Reliance Fresh Subject The topic of the resource Gini decomposition; Global value chain; smallholders; supermarket; Tobit regression Description An account of the resource Drawing upon insights from growing strand of value chain literature, this article examines primary data collected from farmers supplying cauliflower and spinach to Reliance Fresh in the outskirts of Jaipur to understand the implication for farmer households of emergence of supermarket in a smallholder-dominated setting. The article finds that as a lead firm, Reliance Fresh is adopting flexible models of sourcing, devoid of any resource provision, to procure fresh produce of required quality and standards. In such a context, the barrier to participation of smallholders in supermarket-driven agri-food system varies across crops, depending on resource intensity of crops. Participation of smallholders, poorly endowed with human and physical capital, is limited in resource-intensive crop, such as cauliflower, because of high entry barrier in terms of requirement of assets. In contrast, entry barrier is low for smallholders in labour-intensive crop such as spinach, but competition among them, endowed with family labour, bid the rent down to the minimum. Gini decomposition exercise indicates that the emergence of supermarket-driven agri-food system has adverse distributional consequence in rural agrarian setting. Promotion of wholesale market with better infrastructure and encouragement of farmer federation as institutional innovations are suggested for inclusive agri-food marketing system. 2020 Institute of Rural Management. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sutradhar R.; Das A. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived International Journal of Rural Management, Vol-16, No. 1, pp. 81-104. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020-01-01 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/0973005219898918" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://doi.org/10.1177/0973005219898918</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85081584699&amp;doi=10.1177%2F0973005219898918&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=e06644ae9621e97ec27f8bc859da4f62" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85081584699&amp;doi=10.1177%2f0973005219898918&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=e06644ae9621e97ec27f8bc859da4f62</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Restricted Access Relation A related resource ISSN: 9730052 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Online Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Article Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Sutradhar R., Department of Economics, Christ University, Bangalore, India; Das A., Department of Economics, St Josephs College Autonomous, Bangalore, India