eprintid: 23219
rev_number: 33
eprint_status: archive
userid: 14699
dir: disk0/00/02/32/19
datestamp: 2013-09-05 14:01:10
lastmod: 2013-09-16 11:34:50
status_changed: 2013-09-05 14:01:10
type: conference_item
metadata_visibility: show
doclang: en
projects: Tanzania
projects: dk-darcof
projects: int-conf-njf-2013
projects: progrov
confdates: 21-23 August 2013
conference: NJF Seminar 461
confloc: Bredsten, Denmark
refereed: yes
seriesno: 9 (3)
budget: 0
docurl: http://www.njf.nu/filebank/files/20130827$203251$fil$4F15WCXLGK9vjP9XUSjP.pdf
altloc: http://www.icrofs.org/Pages/Research/progrov.html
publicfulltext: TRUE
presentationtype: paper
creators_name: Andreasen, L.
creators_name: Lazaro, E.
title: Productivity and growth in organic value chains in East Africa – potentials and challenges for accessing local high value markets
ispublished: pub
subjects: 5markets
subjects: chainmanagement
keywords: value chains, ecological intensification, innovation capacity,East Africa, local high value markets
abstract: The project ‘Productivity and Growth in Organic Value Chains (ProGrOV)’ is a collaboration between universities in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Denmark addressing the need for sustainable development of smallholder farming systems in East Africa with focus on value chains for local high-value markets as well as export chains. While some research has focused on improving productivity and Natural Resource Management of smallholder farmers in Eastern Africa this has most often not been linked with studies of how to link improved production to market access and quality demands. NGO’s have demonstrated the synergy of supporting ecological intensification through improved marketing and innovation capacity of groups of smallholder farmers but only very few research projects have studied this potential synergy (Pali et al., 2007; Hawkins et al., 2009; Høgh-Jensen et al., 2010). ProGrOV contributes to the development of a platform of scientific capacity and evidence on potentials of organic value chains and agroecological approaches to agricultural development.
date: 2013-08-21
date_type: published
series: NJF Report
publication: Organic farming systems as a driver for change
editors_name: Løes, Anne-Kristin
editors_name: Askegaard, Margrethe
editors_name: Langer, Vibeke
editors_name: Partanen, Kirsi
editors_name: Pehme, Sirli
editors_name: Rasmussen, Ilse A.
editors_name: Salomon, Eva
editors_name: Sørensen, Peter
editors_name: Ullvén, Karin
editors_name: Wivstad, Maria
full_text_status: public
pagerange: 35-36
issn: 1653-2015
corp_editors: NJF
corp_editors: EPOK, SLU
corp_editors: ICROFS
contact_email: lise.andreasen@icrofs.org
voa3r_agrovoc_lang: en
voa3r_agrovoc_lang: en
voa3r_agrovoc_lang: en
voa3r_agrovoc_lang: en
voa3r_agrovoc_lang: en
voa3r_agrovoc_value_string: Food chains
voa3r_agrovoc_value_string: Sustainable development
voa3r_agrovoc_value_string: smallholders
voa3r_agrovoc_value_string: Intensification
voa3r_agrovoc_value_string: agroecology
voa3r_agrovoc_value_uri: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_3014
voa3r_agrovoc_value_uri: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_35332
voa3r_agrovoc_value_uri: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_14343
voa3r_agrovoc_value_uri: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_33485
voa3r_agrovoc_value_uri: http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_92381
fp7_project: no
access_rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
citation:    Andreasen, L. and Lazaro, E.    (2013) Productivity and growth in organic value chains in East Africa – potentials and challenges for accessing local high value markets.   In: Løes, Anne-Kristin; Askegaard, Margrethe; Langer, Vibeke; Partanen, Kirsi; Pehme, Sirli; Rasmussen, Ilse A.; Salomon, Eva; Sørensen, Peter; Ullvén, Karin and Wivstad, Maria (Eds.)  Organic farming systems as a driver for change, NJF Report, no. 9 (3), pp. 35-36.          
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