The Ago-food Chains And Networks for Developmemt

by Ruben, Ruerd; Slingerland, Maja; Nijhoff, Hans

• ISBN13: 9781402046001
• ISBN10: 1402046006
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-15
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction and analytical framework
Agro-food chains and networks for development: issues, approaches and strategies	1	(28)
Ruerd Ruben
Maja Slingerland
Hans Nijhoff
Chain integration and development
Agricultural development and trade liberalization	29	(12)
Roberto Rodriguez
Participation of smallholders in international trade	41	(8)
Leonard Nduati Kariuki
Chains and networks for development: articulating stakeholders in international trade	49	(8)
Jeroen Bordewijk
Vegetables sourcing in Africa: the experience of Freshmark	57	(6)
Johan van Deventer
Building partnerships for adding value: the role of agribusiness in developing trade	63	(6)
Alfons Schmid
The contribution of fair trade towards market access by smallholder banana producers	69	(10)
Gonzalo La Cruz
The rapid rise of supermarkets and the use of private standards in their food product procurement systems in developing countries	79	(28)
Thomas Reardon
Agro-food chains and sustainable livelihood: a case study of cassava marketing in Nigeria	107	(12)
Olusola Bandele Oyewole
Biola Phillip
Business cases
Supply-chain development for fresh fruits and vegetables in Thailand	119	(10)
Jan Buurma
Joompol Saranark
FRUITFUL: integrated supply-chain information system for fruit produce between South Africa and The Netherlands	129	(12)
Anneke Polderdijk
Elsbeth van Dyk
Daisy Ferreira
Egbert Guis
Sandra Keller
Brascan: how to capture value in the beef chain	141	(14)
Marcos Fava Neves
Roberto Fava Scare
Fish in Kenya: the Nile-perch chain	155	(10)
Ronald Schuurhuizen
Aad van Tilburg
Emma Kambewa
Organic cacao chain for development: the case of the Talamanca Small-Farmers Association	165	(14)
Maja Slingerland
Enrique Diaz Gonzalez
The Novella Project: developing a sustainable supply chain for Allanblackia oil	179	(12)
Lawrence Attipoe
Annette van Andel
Samuel Kofi Nyame
Developing a sustainable medicinal-plant chain in India: linking people, markets and values	191	(14)
Petra van de Kop
Ghayur Alam
Bart de Steenhuijsen Piters
Summary and conclusions
Sustainable agro-food chains: challenges for research and development	205	(4)
Louise O. Fresco
Exclusion of small-scale farmers from coordinated supply chains: market failure, policy failure or just economies of scale?	209	(10)
Cornelis L.J. Van Der Meer
Food chains and networks for development: lessons and outlook	219	(14)
Maja Slingerland
Ruerd Ruben
Hans Nijhoff
Peter J.P Zuurbier
Wageningen Declaration	233