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Year: 2008 Publisher: Washington, D.C., The World Bank,
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This paper provides the results of an international survey of practitioners with experience in facilitating the participation of African smallholder farmers in supply chains for higher-value and/or differentiated agricultural products. It explores their perceptions about the constraints inhibiting and the impacts associated with this supply chain participation. It also examines their perceptions about the factors affecting the success of project and policy interventions in this area, about how this success is and should be measured, and about the appropriate roles for national governments, the private sector, and development assistance entities in facilitating smallholder gains in this area. The results confirm a growing 'consensus' about institutional roles, yet suggest some ambiguity regarding the impacts of smallholder participation in higher-value supply chains and the appropriateness of the indicators most commonly used to gauge such impacts. The results also suggest a need to strengthen knowledge about both the 'old' and 'new' sets of constraints (and solutions) related to remunerative smallholder inclusion, in the form of the rising role of standards alongside more long-standing concerns about infrastructure and logistical links to markets.
Access to Finance --- Agricultural Knowledge and Information Systems --- Agricultural products --- Agriculture --- Development assistance --- Economic Theory and Research --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- International Bank --- Labor Policies --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Market development --- Markets and Market Access --- Rural Development --- Smallholder --- Smallholder farmers --- Smallholder participation --- Smallholders --- Social Protections and Labor --- Supply chain --- Supply chains --- Marketing channels. --- Food industry and trade --- Food supply --- Farm produce --- Business --- Development aid --- Economics --- Economy --- Food security --- Market (economics) --- Poverty --- Poverty reduction --- Principal component analysis --- Marketing
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Year: 2009 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The World Bank,
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The relative prosperity enjoyed by Uganda during the 1960s, based largely on the traditional exports of coffee, tea, cotton, and tobacco, was eroded by a devastating civil war over the period 1971 to 1985. The paper is based upon interviews with selected respondents, including government authorities, exporting companies, donors, and practitioner organizations, carried out in 2007 and 2008. The paper is divided into four sections. Section one provides a brief historical perspective on the emergence of the Ugandan fruit and vegetable export industry and examines the role played by different government and donor initiatives in the initial shaping of the sector, between the late 1980s and late 1990s. Section two highlights the strategic commercial approaches adopted by Ugandan exporting companies and farmers during the 2000s in response to past performance and in the face of evolving regulatory and market requirements, especially in the European Union. Section three examines the rationale for, means of support of, and apparent efficacy of a range of recent programs seeking to improve or sustain the competitiveness of Uganda's fruit and vegetable exports via improved compliance with regulatory or private standards. Lessons are drawn from this experience. Section four provides a brief set of general conclusions.
Access to Markets --- Agribusiness --- Agricultural Productivity --- Agricultural Research --- Agriculture --- Bananas --- Beans --- Capacity Building --- Cocoa --- Coffee --- Commercialization --- Consumers --- Cotton --- Crop Diversification --- Crops --- Crops & Crop Management Systems --- Economic Liberalization --- Economies of Scale --- Export Competitiveness --- Feasibility Studies --- Food Safety --- Food Security --- Gdp --- Gross Domestic Product --- Horticultural Crops --- Horticulture Sector --- Human Capital --- Inflation --- Integrated Pest Management --- Irrigation --- Labor Costs --- Livestock --- Maize --- Marketing --- Natural Resources --- Pesticides --- Pineapple --- Private Investment --- Private Sector --- Productivity --- Protocols --- Rural Development --- Seeds --- Spices --- Technical Assistance --- Technology Transfer --- Telecommunications --- Trade Facilitation --- Trade Policy --- United Nations --- Usaid
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Year: 2008 Publisher: Washington, D.C., The World Bank,
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This paper provides the results of an international survey of practitioners with experience in facilitating the participation of African smallholder farmers in supply chains for higher-value and/or differentiated agricultural products. It explores their perceptions about the constraints inhibiting and the impacts associated with this supply chain participation. It also examines their perceptions about the factors affecting the success of project and policy interventions in this area, about how this success is and should be measured, and about the appropriate roles for national governments, the private sector, and development assistance entities in facilitating smallholder gains in this area. The results confirm a growing 'consensus' about institutional roles, yet suggest some ambiguity regarding the impacts of smallholder participation in higher-value supply chains and the appropriateness of the indicators most commonly used to gauge such impacts. The results also suggest a need to strengthen knowledge about both the 'old' and 'new' sets of constraints (and solutions) related to remunerative smallholder inclusion, in the form of the rising role of standards alongside more long-standing concerns about infrastructure and logistical links to markets.
Access to Finance --- Agricultural Knowledge and Information Systems --- Agricultural products --- Agriculture --- Development assistance --- Economic Theory and Research --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- International Bank --- Labor Policies --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Market development --- Markets and Market Access --- Rural Development --- Smallholder --- Smallholder farmers --- Smallholder participation --- Smallholders --- Social Protections and Labor --- Supply chain --- Supply chains --- Marketing channels. --- Food industry and trade --- Food supply --- Farm produce --- Marketing
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ISBN: 1464813469 Year: 2018 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The World Bank,
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Food safety hazards are increasingly being recognized as a major public health problem worldwide, yetamong developing countries, there is limited understanding of the wider-ranging socio-economic costs ofunsafe food and the benefits of remedial or preventative measures. This limited evidence base has led manycountries to underinvest in food safety, or invest inefficiently in reaction to serious outbreaks of foodborneillness, other food scares, or trade interruptions. For many countries experiencing rapid urbanization anddietary changes, the growing complexity of food safety hazards is outpacing if not overwhelming prevailingfood safety management capacity-both in government and in supply chains.This report strengthens the economic case for increased public investment and other policy attention onfood safety in developing countries. It is directed primarily at policy-makers, although researchers,development practitioners and food safety specialists will also find its content of value. By synthesizing andinterpreting the available evidence on the economic costs of unsafe food in relation to both domesticmarkets and trade, the report positions food safety as an integral part of economic development and foodsystem modernization. It goes on to provide guidance on ways in which public policy and investment canimprove food safety awareness and behavior from farm to fork.
Food --- Food handling. --- Safety measures. --- Developing countries.
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