Agricultural Value Chain Development and Smallholder Competitiveness

More critically, the tools to support commissioners, developers and accessibility experts are still very poor and do not provide much of the functionality that

We compare the horizontal and vertical governance aspects of two locally based private standards initiatives that have emerged in the agrifood sector in Kenya:

These include the Ministry in charge of Animal and Fishery Resources (MIRAH), the Interprofessional Fund for Agricultural Research and the Council (FIRCA), the

Wind damages Lack of equipment Lack of credit Lack of technical supports Lack of conservation technologies (incl.processing) Theft of mangoes on orchards Lack of buyers

Relying on trade data and standard indicators of economic and social upgrading (investment rates, value capture, median income, labor share, Gini index, employment rate) from

In Section 3 of the paper we proposed new indicators to measure GVC participation and value capture. Each of these indicators presents a series of methodological differences in their

The value consists in the new market access which TRQs created (and the export surplus gained on these additional exports) plus the size of quota rents generated

Unlike previous works, that analyze the relationship between countries’ water resources and their virtual water trade only in volume terms (quantities), we emphasize the price