sustainably valorise the small peasants agriculture in Africa and include the smallholders in global markets. Certification and … smallholders of this new North- South trade regime established by certificates and labels. This article uses the theory of Global … the “cahiers de charges” imposed by the North however may cause exclusion of many smallholders in these new North …

This paper proposes a strategic framework for policies to assist smallholders in developing countries. It describes the … on smallholders, and the consequent need for policies to facilitate rather than impede adjustment. A key premise of the … framework is that, for the majority of smallholders, the long term (i.e. inter-generational)future lies outside the sector …

standards marginalize smallholders from global market. This article therefore explores the costs of compliance, factors …. Analysis is based on a random cross section sample of 439 small-scale export vegetable producers in Kenya whose production was …

understand agriculture-nutrition linkages. …

This study explored appropriate options for smallholders to maximise market price for Indigenous chicken products in … rural and urban markets in Western Kenya (Rongo, Homabay and Kisii in 2008 with results revealing that, the major …

chain in Kenya to examine these assumptions. It is shown that contract farming can be used to reduce transaction costs and …