Governance of market-oriented fresh food value chains: export chains from New Zealand

Sustaining Export-oriented Value Chains of Farmed Seafood in China

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The Governance of Global Value Chains

This article builds a theoretical framework to help explain governance patterns in global value chains. It draws on three streams of literature – transaction costs economics, production networks, and technological capability and firm-level learning – to identify three variables that play a large role in determining how global value chains are governed and change. These are: (1) the complexity o...

Strengthening the Competitiveness of Export Oriented Agro Value Chains Cashew Nut Value Chain in Mozambique

Strengthening the Competitiveness of Export Oriented Agro Value Chains Cashew Nut Value Chain in Mozambique Date of submission: 31 January 2011 Region: Africa Country: Mozambique Type: Technical cooperation (building productive capacity) Author: Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) Contact Details: SECO, Economic Cooperation and Development: Hans‐Peter Egler, Head Trade Promoti...

Analysis of selected food value chains

Maize is the most important grain crop in South Africa, being both the major feed grain and the staple food for the majority of the South African population. Figure 1 illustrates that for the 2002/03 marketing year, maize was responsible for the largest contribution (13.78%) to the total gross value of the agricultural production with a gross value of R9.5 billion. Poultry slaughtered followed ...

Beyond the vertical? Using value chains and governance as a framework to analyse private standards initiatives in agri-food chains