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Diversification into Horticulture and Poverty Reduction: A Research Agenda
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In this paper, the authors argue that development agencies must put more emphasis on horticultural research and development, especially in the following priority areas: genetic improvement, safe production systems, commercial seed production, postharvest facilities, and the urban/peri-urban environment.About:
This article is published in World Development.The article was published on 2007-08-01. It has received 347 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Least Developed Countries & Diversification (marketing strategy).read more
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Blockchain technology adoption, architecture, and sustainable agri-food supply chains
Samant Saurabh,Kushankur Dey +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify a few potential drivers of blockchain technology adoption, considering the grape wine supply chain and employing a rating-based conjoint analysis, and find that dis-intermediation, traceability, price, trust, compliance, and coordination and control in order of their relative importance and utilities can influence the supply chain actors' adoption-intention decision processes.
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African indigenous vegetables in urban agriculture
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define Urban Agriculture and Indigenous Vegetables, and integrate urban agriculture into spatial planning, drawing lessons from the Dar es Salaam experience, and discuss the integration of IVs and Urban Agriculture: recurring themes and policy lessons for the future.
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Postharvest technology for developing countries: challenges and opportunities in research, outreach and advocacy
TL;DR: The needs and challenges of developing good, science-based, simple methods for postharvest handling that can be made available in developing countries are discussed.
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Urban agriculture and land use in cities: An approach with the multi-functionality and sustainability concepts in the case of Antananarivo (Madagascar)
Christine Aubry,Josélyne Ramamonjisoa,Marie-Hélène Dabat,Jacqueline Rakotoarisoa,Josette Rakotondraibe,R. Lilia Rabeharisoa +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors designed an interdisciplinary research program in order to test two related concepts: the "sustainability" and the "multi-functionality" of agriculture.
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Sensitivity of livelihood strategy to livelihood capital in mountain areas: Empirical analysis based on different settlements in the upper reaches of the Minjiang River, China
TL;DR: In this article, the authors defined the farm and non-farm livelihood strategies as dependent variables, while the natural, human, physical, financial, and social capitals were considered as independent variables in order to model the relationship between livelihood strategies and livelihood capitals.
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The Rise of Supermarkets in Africa, Asia, and Latin America
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the traditional retail and wholesale system in the midst of which emerged modern food retailing and its procurement system, and discuss the determinants of and patterns in the diffusion of supermarkets in the three regions.
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Governance and Trade in Fresh Vegetables: The Impact of UK Supermarkets on the African Horticulture Industry
Catherine Dolan,John Humphrey +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the role of large retailers in structuring the production and processing of fresh vegetables exported from Africa, and the control over the fresh vegetables trade exercised by UK supermarkets has clear consequences for inclusion and exclusion of producers and exporters of differing types.
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Contract Farming, Smallholders, and Rural Development in Latin America: The Organization of Agroprocessing Firms and the Scale of Outgrower Production
Nigel Key,David Runsten +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate how contract farming functions as an economic institution and explore the causes of the observed variation in the scale of outgrower production in Latin America and suggest alternative policies to promote contract farming with smallholders.
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Livelihoods and rural poverty reduction in Uganda
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe research linking micro-level outcomes to macro-level strategies with respect to rural poverty reduction in Kenya, set against a background in which a new government, elected at the end of 2002, is wrestling with how to break away decisively from previously unfavourable norms in the conduct of public life.
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The Rise of Supermarkets in Africa: Implications for Agrifood Systems and the Rural Poor
TL;DR: The rise of supermarkets in Africa since the mid-1990s is transforming the food retail sector as discussed by the authors, which presents both potentially large opportunities and big challenges for producers, and there is an urgent need for development programmes and policies to assist them in adopting the new practices that these procurement systems demand.
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