Smallholder dairy farms are the major providers of marketed milk in Kenya, producing one to ten liters per day. Due to this low production level, farmers are usually associated in cooperatives. Dairy cooperatives are responsible for collecting the raw milk from the members to supply bigger...

Ob die Effizienz in der Wertschöpfungskette Milch durch die Zusammenarbeit von Milcherzeuger und Molkerei gesteigert werden kann, analysiert eine Studie des Lehrstuhls "Marketing für Lebensmittel und Agrarprodukte" der Universität Göttingen, die mit finanzieller Unterstützung der DZ...

Rapid and thorough changes have recently taken place in dairy supply chain in the whole Central and Eastern Europe. Growing concerns have been expressed that these changes may negatively affect farmers' relative position towards downstream industry, due to market power exercised by the latter....