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| Lazaro, Evelyne A.; Halberg, Niels; Andreasen, Lise; Karantininis, Kostas; Rye Kledal, Paul; Mugisha, Johnny; Sibuga, Kalunde P.; Mbapila, Shadrack. |
| Developing countries especially in Sub-Saharan Africa are pronominally agricultural based. Where the majority of the population resides in rural areas and engaged in agriculture as a source of livelihood. However, recently there has been a growing debate globally on rapid urban population growth in developing countries. The aim of this paper is to present opportunities for organic producers emanating from transformations of agri-food systems in urban area. The paper is based on research activities of a project ‘Productivity and Growth in Organic Value Chains (ProGrOV)’. ProGrOV is collaboration between universities in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Denmark addressing the need for sustainable development of smallholder farming systems in East Africa with... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: "Organics" in general Food security; Food quality and human health Markets and trade. |
| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/23642/7/23642.pdf |
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| Severine, Donasian; Lazaro, Evelyne; Kledal, Paul Rye; Karantininis, Kostas; Sibuga, Kalunde; Mbapila, Shadrack. |
| Abstracts There have been growing trends of exports from countries dominated by smallholder agriculture to many of developed world (Kledal and Kwai, 2010). This shows that smallholders’ farmers development perspectives have gained interests in global markets and Value chain Approaches. However, apart from standard constraints in economics that impede participation of smallholder farmers in value chains at production and marketing, transaction costs do also constrain smallholder farmers in participating in value chains. To understand transaction costs effects on smallholder farmers’ participation in global value chains a study on governance of global value chains for organic ginger exports was conducted in Tanzania. The study employed a case study method,... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Farm economics; Markets and trade; Produce chain management. |
| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/23644/1/23644%20Donasian_owc_scientific_track_2014_Trnsaction_costs_impede_smallholder_farmers%27_participation_in_value_chain_MM.pdf |
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