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Vegetable production and marketing in Africa : socio-economic research / edited by Dagmar Mith�ofer, Hermann Waibel.

by Mith�ofer, Dagmar; Waibel, Hermann.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Cambridge, MA : CABI, 2011Description: xv, 271 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781845936495 (alk. paper); 1845936493 (alk. paper).Subject(s): Vegetable trade -- Africa | Vegetables -- Africa -- Marketing | Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- AfricaDDC classification: 338.1/75096
Contents:
An overview -- Theoretical concepts for socio-economic research of vegetables in Africa -- Framework for economic impact assessment of production standards and empirical evidence -- The impact of food safety standards on rural household welfare -- The impact of compliance to GlobalGAP standards on small and large Kenyan export vegetable-producing farms -- Food production standards and farm worker welfare in Kenya -- Group culture and smallholder participation in value chains: French beans in Kenya -- Export vegetable supply chains and rural households in Senegal -- Comparative assessment of the marketing structure and price behaviour of three staple vegetables in Lusaka, Zambia -- Value chains and regional trade in east Africa: the case of vegetables in Kenya and Tanzania -- Supply chains for indigenous vegetables in urban and peri-urban areas of Uganda and Kenya: a gendered perspective -- Private voluntary standards, co-investment and inclusive business -- An approach to strengthening vegetable value chains in east Africa: potential for spillovers -- Challenges for economic impact assessment of classical biological control in Kenya and Tanzania -- Indirect and external costs of pesticide use in the vegetable sub-sector in Kenya -- Integrated pest management training and information flow among smallholder horticulture farmers in Kenya.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

An overview -- Theoretical concepts for socio-economic research of vegetables in Africa -- Framework for economic impact assessment of production standards and empirical evidence -- The impact of food safety standards on rural household welfare -- The impact of compliance to GlobalGAP standards on small and large Kenyan export vegetable-producing farms -- Food production standards and farm worker welfare in Kenya -- Group culture and smallholder participation in value chains: French beans in Kenya -- Export vegetable supply chains and rural households in Senegal -- Comparative assessment of the marketing structure and price behaviour of three staple vegetables in Lusaka, Zambia -- Value chains and regional trade in east Africa: the case of vegetables in Kenya and Tanzania -- Supply chains for indigenous vegetables in urban and peri-urban areas of Uganda and Kenya: a gendered perspective -- Private voluntary standards, co-investment and inclusive business -- An approach to strengthening vegetable value chains in east Africa: potential for spillovers -- Challenges for economic impact assessment of classical biological control in Kenya and Tanzania -- Indirect and external costs of pesticide use in the vegetable sub-sector in Kenya -- Integrated pest management training and information flow among smallholder horticulture farmers in Kenya.

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