Overview
- Cooperation in agro-food supply chains
- Public-private partnerships
- Market access for smallholder producers
- Combining theory and business cases
Part of the book series: Wageningen UR Frontis Series (WURF, volume 14)
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Keywords
- Agribusiness
- Innovation
- Integration
- Nation
- environment
- globalization
About this book
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Agro-Food Chains and Networks for Development
Editors: Ruerd Ruben, Maja Slingerland, Hans Nijhoff
Series Title: Wageningen UR Frontis Series
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4592-9Published: 07 April 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4600-1Published: 07 April 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 236