This contribution illustrates how even simple information and communication technologies (ICTs) can support the integration of African small-scale farmers into international value chains, using the example of various value chains for fresh fruit and vegetables in Kenya and Tanzania. Positive...

When referring to "global commodity chains", the globally distributed contexts of production, marketing, and consumption and the interactions between these are always in focus. However, this is rarely true with regard to the logistics processes that are mediating between these contexts and that...