In emerging markets for high-value food products in developing countries, processing companies search for efficient … is known about the appropriate design of contracts, especially in a small farm context. We use the example of the … Vietnamese dairy sector to analyze the effectiveness of existing contracts between a processor and smallholder farmers in terms …

Collective action has become an important strategy for smallholders in developing countries to remain competitive in … emerge primarily through the exploitation of economies of scale, low participation rates in joint activities may put a … participation intensity and free-riding, using the example of banana groups in Kenya. The results suggest that family labor …

survey of vegetable farmers in Kenya, in this article a double-hurdle model of hired labor use is developed and estimated …. Farmer participation in supermarket channels increases the likelihood of hiring labor by 13% and overall demand for hired … labor. Given that agricultural wage labor is primarily an activity of low-income households in rural areas, the poor benefit …

There is an emerging body of literature analyzing how smallholder farmers in developing countries can be linked to … considered. Here, we address these gaps by analyzing different market channels for sweet pepper in Thailand. Using data from a …

has shown that smallholder farmers can benefit from supplying supermarkets in terms of higher productivity and income …. Here, we analyze impacts on farm household nutrition. Building on data from vegetable farmers in Kenya, we show that … participation in supermarket channels has sizeable positive effects: calorie, vitamin A, iron, and zinc consumption are all …

Food systems in developing countries are transforming, involving a rapid expansion of supermarkets. This supermarket … understanding. Reviewing recent evidence from Kenya, we show that buying food in supermarkets instead of traditional outlets … supermarkets causes improvements in dietary quality. The results underline that supermarkets influence nutrition in multiple ways …

experiment in two cities in Ghana. Using a public good game with third-party punishment, we find that punisher's age is an …

Agricultural innovations are seen as a key avenue to improve nutrition and health in smallholder farm households. But … adoption of agricultural technologies, most studies primarily focus on impacts in terms of productivity and income. Nutrition … and health impacts have rarely been analyzed. In this article, we argue that future impact studies should include …

Sustainability standards are gaining in importance in global markets for high-value foods. While previous research has … shown that participating farmers in developing countries may benefit through income gains, nutrition impacts have hardly … been analysed. We use survey data from smallholder coffee farmers in Uganda – certified under Fairtrade, Organic, and UTZ …

farmers in Africa. While some consider natural resource management (NRM) technologies as most appropriate, others propagate … input intensification with a stronger role of the private sector. In the public debate, the two strategies are often … technologies in the same context are not easily possible. We use representative data from maize-producing households in Kenya and a …