</titre> In Ivory Coast, the cash crop sector is going through a crisis. At the same time the urban growth increases the demand for food crops. Tomato production and sale to urban markets is expanding in the Centre-East of Ivory Coast. This paper appraises whether the incomes generated by tomato enable...

[paper in French]The crisis of avian influenza occurred in Vietnam in late 2003 has affected the organization;of the local poultry value chain. This crisis has resulted in an alliance between the Vietnamese government;and agro-industrial sector considered more capable than the traditional one,...

Replaced with revised version of paper 11/26/07.

This article describes the development of vegetable marketing in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), where modern distribution outlets are competing fiercely with traditional traders for wholesale and retail customers. Data from interviews with supply chain stakeholders and a survey of vegetable...

This article presents a conceptual framework for the analysis of vegetable supply chains in a South East Asian context and the role wholesale markets play in these chains. Following a review of the literature on food marketing systems in developing countries and preliminary fieldwork in South...

Purpose – To demonstrate that collaborative commerce is not restricted to trade in branded products between large, multi‐national organisations. Design/methodology/approach – Insights from extensive field research in Viet Nam. Findings – The benefits from collaborative commerce are plain...

The objective of this paper is to analyze the effects public regulatory tools for food safety, notably maximum admitted contamination thresholds and official controls performed at importing country’s borders on both developing countries’ market access and consumers’ health. An Industrial...

In the paper, we propose a methodological way of leading an economical assessment of innovative cropping systems (ICSs). The originality lies in the integration of the crop management flexibility and the farmers’ risk perception and risk preferences. Two conventional cropping systems have been...