Increases in food demand, product differentiation, and agribusiness growth provide new market opportunities for smallholders in Africa. Yet, smallholders face challenges of meeting quality, volume, and timing requirements to capture these opportunities. Cooperatives have been identified as a...

This book investigates if and how agricultural market structures and farm constraints affect the development of dynamic food and cash crop sectors and whether these sectors can contribute to economic transformation and poverty reduction in Africa. The authors map the current cash and food crops...

Innovative local agrifood governance -- The rise of municipal food movements / Kevin Morgan, Raychel Santo -- Grassroots responsible innovation initiatives in SFSC / Cristina Grasseni -- Food localization and agency : the cases of Regionalwert AG and Luzernenhof in Freiburg, Germany / Lena...

Abstract -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- Part I: The Welfare Impact of Agricultural Supply Chains, Market Structure and Farm Constraints -- Chapter 2: A Model of Agricultural Supply Chains, Market Structure and Farm Constraints -- 2.1 Cash Crop Exports...