Johnston, Catherine | 2007
- Author(s): Johnston, Catherine
- Publisher: U.S. Agency for international development (USAID)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: agricultural product marketing, small farms, markets, governance, agricultural credit, east africa, uganda
This note presents three value chains in Uganda, and an analysis of the availability of finance within directed, balanced, and market governance structures. Four types of chain governance are distinguished.
Johnston, Catherine and Meyer, Richard L. and Curtis, Alexis | 2007
- Author(s): Johnston, Catherine and Meyer, Richard L. and Curtis, Alexis
- Publisher: U.S. Agency for international development (USAID)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: agricultural credit, small farms, agricultural product marketing, governance, purchasing, financial institutions, private sector, east africa, uganda
Three value chains in Uganda were analysed to better understand the relationship between governance, value chain finance, and loan screening and repayment.
Jones, Andrew | 2006
- Author(s): Jones, Andrew
- Publisher: International institute for environment and development (IIED)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: agribusiness, beans, purchasing, international trade, air transport, energy consumption, kenya, united kingdom
About 87% of UK green bean imports comes from 5 African countries, and 58% comes from Kenya. Energy use is 12 times greater when beans are from Kenya rather than the UK.
Jones, Linda | 2012
- Author(s): Jones, Linda
- Publisher: The Springfield centre for business in development
- Pages: --
- Keywords: agricultural product marketing, market access, gender, women
The paper describes the M4P framework and reviews gender and women’s economic empowerment literature and frameworks. It presents an analysis of the M4P approach from a gendered perspective; and suggests ways that the M4P approach can tackle and provide evidence of women’s economic empowerment.
Jones, Linda and Shaikh, Perveen | 2005
- Author(s): Jones, Linda and Shaikh, Perveen
- Publisher: The Small enterprise education and promotion (SEEP) network
- Pages: --
- Keywords: merchants, women, economic development, social justice, small enterprises, marketing, south asia, pakistan
Work with poor women micro-entrepreneurs in Pakistan led to the notion of middlemen providing an essential service and potentially becoming active contributors to the development of more equitable value chains.