Quality and innovation in food chains : : lessons and insights from Africa / / edited by J. Bijman, V. Bitzer.

• TeilnehmendeR: Bijman, J.,; Bitzer, V.,
• Place / Publishing House: Wageningen, [Netherlands] : : Wageningen Academic Publishers,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (275 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Table of Contents

Table of contents ; Preface; 1. Quality improvement in food value chains: searching for integrated solutions; Abstract; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Defining food quality; 1.3 Different perspectives of food chain analysis; 1.4 Market access and the debate around the impact of quality standards; 1.5 From innovation to co-innovation; 1.6 Outline of the book; References; 2. Linking smallholder farmers to high quality food chains: appraising institutional arrangements; Abstract; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Institutional constraints to quality improvement

2.3 Evaluating institutional arrangements from a quality improvement perspective2.4 Interactions among and combinations of the different institutional arrangements; 2.5 Conclusions and policy implications; References; 3. Quality challenges and opportunities in the pineapple supply chain in Benin; Abstract; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Quality issues along the pineapple value chain; 3.3. Opportunities for quality improvement; 3.4 Conclusions; References; Appendix 3.1. Global SWOT analysis of pineapple value chains

Appendix 3.2. Constraints along the pineapple value chain and recommended solutions 4. Willingness to pay for market information received by mobile phone among smallholder pineapple f; Abstract; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Overview of pineapple supply chains in Benin; 4.3 Data collection and methods; 4.4 Mobile phone-based market information system experiences in Ghana: Esoko case study; 4.5 Information asymmetry and importance of mobile phone use by smallholder pineapple farmers in Benin; 4.6 Farmers' willingness to pay for a mobile-based market information system in Benin

4.7 Concluding remarksReferences; Appendix 4.1. Description of variables and hypothesised signs.; Appendix 4.2. Correlation matrix and descriptive statistics of variables.; 5. Improving seed potato quality in Ethiopia: a value chain perspective; Abstract; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Conceptual framework; 5.3 Methodology; 5.4 Results: performance analysis; 5.5 Improvement options for the seed potato value chains; 5.6 Conclusions; References; 6. Diverging quality preferences along the supply chain: implications for variety choice by potato; Abstract; 6.1 Introduction

6.2 Overview of the Ethiopian potato sector6.3 Conceptual framework: quality preferences alignment; 6.4 Materials and methods; 6.5 Results and discussion; 6.6 Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; Appendix 6.1. An overall difference in mean ranks test of the production-related quality attributes across main varieties.; Appendix 6.2. An overall difference in mean ranks test of the market-related quality attributes across main varieties. ; 7. Keeping up with rising quality demands? New institutional arrangements, upgrading and market acc; Abstract; 7.1 Introduction

7.2 Governance, quality and upgrading in global value chains