Value Chains for Development

Mainstreaming fair trade : fair trade brands & the problem of ownership

Hutchens, Anna | 2007
  • Author(s): Hutchens, Anna
  • Publisher: Australian national university (ANU)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agricultural product marketing, branded merchandise, international trade, social justice
Fair trade branding is compared with fair trade mainstreaming, based on experiences of fair trade practitioners involved in mainstreaming fair trade. The analysis offers lessons for the future of fair trade.

Value chain for the U.S. cotton industry

Hutson, Andrew M. and Biravadolu, Monica and Gereffi, Gary | 2005
  • Author(s): Hutson, Andrew M. and Biravadolu, Monica and Gereffi, Gary
  • Publisher: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Department of public policy [etc.]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agribusiness, cotton industry, markets, political aspects, globalization, united states
The value chain for cotton in the USA is examined, including the political actors, market power, and the market segments of farm inputs, textile manufacturing, and cottonseed processing.

Promoting agricultural value chains : rural-urban linkages in practice

Hِffler, Heike and Maingi, Gladys | 2005
  • Author(s): Hِffler, Heike and Maingi, Gladys
  • Publisher: [Eschborn]
  • Pages: 26--28
  • Keywords: food supply, urban areas, consumers, supply and demand, agricultural product marketing, small farms, kenya
The Kenyan potato value chain is used to illustrate how changing urban and international demand impacts on rural areas along value chains and offers promising entry points for development interventions.

Standards and agro-food exports from developing countries : rebalancing the debate

Jaffee, Steven and Henson, Spencer | 2004
  • Author(s): Jaffee, Steven and Henson, Spencer
  • Publisher: World bank
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: food hygiene, food standards, food exports, agricultural products, trade disputes, trade restrictions
The impact of the changing standards environment on developing country exporters of high-value agricultural products is examined. The key question is how to exploit their strengths and overcome their weaknesses.

The cacao marketing chain in Ecuador : analysis of chain constraints to the development of markets for high-quality cacao

Jano, Pilar and Mainville, Denise | 2007
  • Author(s): Jano, Pilar and Mainville, Denise
  • Publisher: Authors
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agribusiness, commodity trade, cocoa, standards, market potential, latin america, ecuador
This paper analyses the constraints to developing markets for high quality cacao in Ecuador, which produces only 3% of the world production, but 50% of the world's high-quality cacao.
 

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The Value Chains for Development portal provides access to selected free, full-text electronic documents on pro-poor value chains.