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| Title: | Restructuring international food chains: Building sustainable and all-inclusive food chains at the primary stages |
| Authors: | Kambewa, Emma
van der Lans, Ivo A.C.M.
van Trijp, J.C.M.
Ingenbleek, Paul T.M.
van Tilburg, Aad
van Boekel, Martinus A.J.S. |
| Issue Date: | 2007 |
| Series/Report no.: | Seminar Paper |
| Abstract: | Although it is often acknowledged that effective inclusion of small-scale primary producers in international chains is crucial for alleviating poverty in developing countries, few insights exist about how to build sustainable and all-inclusive food chains especially those based on scarce natural resources. In order to address challenges that marketing and development policy and institutions as well as small-scale primary producers in the agro-ecological sector face in promoting sustainable practices, this paper focuses on the use of contracts. The paper investigates whether small-scale primary producers would engage in contracts that oblige them to implement sustainable and quality-improving practices and if so under what conditions. Results show that primary producers (fishermen in this study) are open to sustainability-quality enhancing contracts provided that such contracts also enhance their welfare and economic benefits. Implications for building sustainable and all-inclusive international marketing channels are discussed. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/7905 |
| Institution/Association: | European Association of Agricultural Economists>106th Seminar, October 25-27, 2007, Montpellier, France |
| Total Pages: | 22 |
| Language: | English |
| Collections: | 106th Seminar, October 25-27, 2007, Montpellier, France
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