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This paper highlights a market information and linkage system (MILS) developed and tested by the Kenya Agricultural Commodity Exchange Limited (KACE) that increases the efficiency of agricultural markets to work better for smallholder farmers and other small and medium sized agro-enterprises...
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Rice sector contributes significantly to secure households with regard to their food needs but also to the creation of employments and income generation. The sector development and its evolution over the years have been marked by various policies and approaches. These development stages of the...
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Agriculture is the mainstay of the Kenyan Economy. However, agriculture has experienced low productivity over the years. Poor access to agricultural finance has been identified as a contributing factor to low crop productivity. Kenyan agriculture has undergone some fundamental changes which have...
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Globalization and competitiveness of agricultural commodities could have significant potential benefits for food security and poverty reduction in West Africa. Participation in global trade and economy is potentially important but not enough to ensure benefits at all levels of the chains and...
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Agriculture in Ethiopia is changing. New players, relationships, and policies are influencing the ways in which information and knowledge are used by smallholders. While this growing complexity suggests opportunities for Ethiopian smallholders, too little is known about how these opportunities...
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marketing and second, identified the determinants of variations in the frequency of mobile phone use for catfish marketing among … agents involved in the marketing chain. The study was carried out in Kwara-state, Nigeria. One hundred and forty respondents … communication channels used for catfish marketing. Annual income generated from catfish business was significant in explaining …
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interactions among various actors in the value chain so as to be able to improve marketing efficiency by adding value to produce … supermarket which are based on relationship marketing. The findings of the study also indicate that 12% of respondents in Malawi …
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paper presents the analysis of economic returns from harvesting and marketing indigenous fruits and the socio economic …
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The marketing and the valorisation of teak (Tectona grandis L.f.) leaves were studied in southern Benin, in order to … marketing system. Traders provided information on their functions in the marketing system, the costs borne, and their revenues …. In the consumers’ survey, respondents provided data on the consumption forms of teak leaves. The marketing channel …
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attention to include agribusiness or agro-industries. However, the role of Agricultural Education and Training in fostering … agribusiness growth in developing countries is relatively underexplored. This paper analyses the current state of agribusiness … macroeconomic environment—political, economic, social and technological—in which agribusiness development is taking place in Africa …
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