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1 online resource (304 pages) |
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Front Cover; Value Chains, Social Inclusion and Economic Development; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Foreword and acknowledgements; 1. Governance, inclusion and embedding: Raising the issues: A.H.J. (Bert) Helmsing and Sietze Vellema; Part I: Governance and inclusion; 2. Unpacking the discourse on social inclusion in value chains: Otto Hospes and Joy Clancy; 3. Voluntary governance initiatives and the challenges of inclusion and upscaling: Peter Knorringa, Gerdien Meijerink and Greetje Schouten |
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4. Comparing fair and responsible coffee standards in East Africa: Ruerd Ruben and Simone Verkaart5. Agricultural cooperatives and value chain coordination: Jos Bijman, Roldan Muradian and Andrei Cechin; 6. Labour in globalized agricultural value chains: Lee Pegler, Karin Astrid Siegmann and Sietze Vellema; 7. The Ghanaian state and inclusive upgrading in the global cocoa chain: Anna Laven; Part II: Embedding and business systems |
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8. Business systems, value chains and inclusive regional development in South-East Asia: Edo Andriesse, Niels Beerepoot, Bram van Helvoirt and Guus (A.C.M.) van Westen9. Local embedding and economic crisis: Comparing lobster chains in Belize, Jamaica and Nicaragua: Iris Monnereau and A.H.J. (Bert) Helmsing; 10. Governance and greening global agro-food chains: Cases from Vietnam, Thailand and Benin: Peter Oosterveer, Pham Van Hoi and Laurent C. Glin; Part III: Chain-based partnerships for development |
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11. Partnering to facilitate smallholder inclusion in value chains: Verena Bitzer, Jeroen van Wijk, A.H.J. (Bert) Helmsing and Victor van der Linden12. Upscaling smallholder participation in global value chains: Aad van Tilburg, Emma Kambewa, Andre de Jager and Davies Onduru; 13. Building inclusive value chains in biotrade: A comparison of two cases from South America: Roldan Muradian, Gerard Verschoor, Edgar Bolivar and German Ochoa; Index |
| Summary |
Lead firms, development organisations, donors and governments view value chains and voluntary standards as vital instruments for achieving millennium development goals through trade and market-related interventions. The precise foundations for these development strategies, which suggest positive development outcomes from integration of poor actors into value chains, are as yet underdeveloped. The interdisciplinary work in this volume shows how trade is managed and asks theory-driven questions about how value chains relate to locally-rooted development processes. Policy makers a |
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Print version record |
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International trade.
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Economic development.
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International economic relations.
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International trade -- Social aspects
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Economic development -- Social aspects.
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International economic relations -- Social aspects
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economic development.
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Economic development
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Economic development -- Social aspects
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International economic relations
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International economic relations -- Social aspects
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International trade
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International trade -- Social aspects
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Vellema, Sietze
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| ISBN |
9780203816806 |
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0203816803 |
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