... and expansion of enterprises for their respective target market which may ultimately provide additional social and economic benefits. Beekeeping was chosen as a case study due to the developmental benefits that may arise from its undertaking, particularly for agricultural workers (Bradbear, 2009), which...

... literature on the role of agriculture and its diversification in economic development and poverty eradication. Section 3 sets out the data used in this study and its methodology. Cropping patterns, decomposition and sources of growth are analyzed in Section 4 . Section 5 discusses the determinants...

... Licensed re-use rights only Fish price Aquaculture India Value chains Development In any developing country, the availability of nutritious food for the poor at a reasonable price is a matter of serious concern, and fishery products assume importance for being protein rich food...

..., with repercussions on the support environment (e.g. delivery of technical, business and financial services). Embracing the idea of value chains as complex adaptive systems has powerful implications for how development agencies and the private sector work to support smallholder participation in value chains, for how...

... to value chain development, though they focus welcome attention on snapshots of current structure and performance, pay limited attention to the dynamic forces affecting these chains or to adaptation. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach This paper develops an expanded...

... Rural areas Agriculture Development Food and drink Fruits Beer With a total production of 9,953,845 metric tonnes per year ( FAOSTAT, 2008), banana (Musa) is one of the main crops in Uganda. Four different types of banana, based on use, can be distinguished: cooking, roasting, dessert...

...Aleksan Shanoyan; R. Brent Ross; Hamish R. Gow; H. Christopher Peterson Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the role of a third-party market facilitation strategy in creating sustainable market linkages and revitalizing an important agri-food sector in a developing country setting...

...Katie D. Ricketts; Calum G. Turvey; Miguel I. Gómez Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to look at the ever-popular, “value-chain approach” for linking smallholder farmers to high value export markets. Conventional wisdom says that value chains undertaken for development purposes redistribute...