| Description |
1 online resource (x, 233 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Wageningen UR frontis series ; v. 14 |
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Wageningen UR frontis series ; v. 14.
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| Contents |
Agro-food chains and networks for development : issues, approaches and strategies / Ruerd Ruben, Maja Slingerland and Hans Nijhoff -- Agricultural development and trade liberalization / Roberto Rodriguez -- Participation of smallholders in international trade / Leonard Nduati Kariuki -- Chains and networks for development : articulating stakeholders in international trade / Jeroen Bordewijk -- Vegetables sourcing in Africa : the experience of Freshmark / Johan van Deventer -- Building partnerships for adding value : the role of agribusiness in developing trade / Alfons Schmid -- The contribution of fair trade towards market access by smallholder banana producers / Gonzalo La Cruz -- The rapid rise of supermarkets and the use of private standards in their food product procurement systems in developing countries / Thomas Reardon -- Agro-food chains and sustainable livelihood : a case study of cassava marketing in Nigeria / Olusola Bandele Oyewole and Biola Phillip -- Supply-chain development for fresh fruits and vegetables in Thailand / Jan Buurma and Joompol Saranark -- FRUITFUL : integrated supply-chain information system for fruit produce between South Africa and the Netherlands / Anneke Polderdijk [and others] -- Brascan : how to capture value in the beef chain / Marcos Fava Neves and Roberto Fava Scare -- Fish in Kenya : the Nile-perch chain / Ronald Schuurhuizen, Aad van Tilburg and Emma Kambewa -- Organic cacao chain for development : the case of the Talamanca Small-Farmers Association / Maja Slingerland and Enrique Diaz Gonzalez -- The Novella project : developing a sustainable supply chain for Allanblackia oil / Lawrence Attipoe, Annette van Andel and Samuel Kofi Nyame -- Developing a sustainable medicinal-plant chain in India : linking people, markets and values / Petra van de Kop, Ghayur Alam and Bart de Steenhuijsen Piters -- Sustainable agro-food chains : challenges for research and development / Louise O. Fresco -- Exclusion of small-scale farmers from coordinated supply chains : market failure, policy failure or just economies of scale? / Cornelis L.J. Van Der Meer -- Food chains and networks for development : lessons and outlook / Maja Slingerland [and others] |
| Summary |
Agro-food chains and networks play an increasingly important role in providing access to markets for producers from developing countries. In developing countries companies become integrated into geographically dispersed supply networks that link producers, traders and processors from the South with retailers and consumers in urban centres and in the North. Globalization of trade and integration of supply chains lead to new demands regarding food quality, safety and health. Companies involved in global food and agri-business chains and networks face fast changes in their market and business environment. New procedures and practices for organizing food supply networks based on co-innovation between primary producers, processors and retailers are emerging to cope with food grades and standards. Optimizing chain performance asks for cooperation between all agents involved in the supply chain. Agro-food companies communicate consumers demands to smallholders to guarantee stable market access. Public and voluntary agencies may provide important contributions for reinforcing the supply-chain environment. This volume combines insights from theory with a large number of business cases to enable a better understanding of the opportunities and constraints that supply-chain integration can offer for stimulating rural development |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Food supply.
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Agricultural industries -- Developing countries
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Business logistics.
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Food supply.
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Agricultural industries -- Developing countries.
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Business logistics.
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Agricultural industries.
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Business logistics.
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Food supply.
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Kooperation
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Ländliche Entwicklung
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Nachhaltigkeit
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Nahrungskette
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Voedselproductie.
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Agro-industrie.
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Ketenbeheer (logistiek)
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Developing countries.
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Ontwikkelingslanden.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ruben, Ruerd, editor.
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Slingerland, Maja, editor.
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Nijhoff, Hans, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781402050060 |
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1402050062 |
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