Abstract Agricultural research institutes in Sub-Sahara Africa have focused on establishing farmer groups that facilitate the commercial production and marketing of African Indigenous Vegetables (AIVs) to address food nutritional security. With freedom selecting choices market outlets, we explored factors such as farmers’ characteristics, farm attributes, selling preferences, social relations, ...

on the basis of acreage, production and import amounts, maize is one of the strategic products in iran, regarding defects of marketing system of maize, in this analysis using yearly observations between 1368 to 1385 (18 years) and eviews software, the marketing and econometric model of maize marketing margin was studied. the results show that the most important factor in the maize marketing mar...

Recent literature, largely from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, indicates that substantial changes have occurred in the produce industry in recent years. With the rise of retail mass merchandisers and increased concentration in the retail food industry, the procurement power of these large firms reportedly has also increased. With direct buying and contracting, ma...

Most wholesalers are small family-owned firms that frequently lack marketing skills and an infrastructure capable of setting into practice state-of-the-art marketing distribution systems. They are much more consumed with daily activities and credit and collection functions than they are with developing marketing skills and logistics networks. The purpose of this exploratory study is to identify...

The aim of the study was to analyze marketing channel, margin, and efficiency in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. research conducted two cities, such as City Manado Tomohon, one regency, Regency Minahasa, trade center cattle Sulawesi province. There were 120 respondents, consisting 100 farmers, 10 livestock brokers or intermediaries, 5 collecting traders (business scale 20-30 cattle), end user consum...

Based on the uncertainty theory, market demand information updating as the background, we study the coordination and optimization problem of three-stage supply chain in this paper. In half a asymmetric market information, participants are risk neutral; under the situation of the manufacturers and wholesalers having twice pre-season decision-making opportunity, wholesalers can be replenished in ...

We propose an integrated supply chain management framework that allows us to explicitly consider the impact of product perishability on a broad scale that includes manufacturers, distribution centers, wholesalers, and demand markets. The framework proposed herein also makes it possible to consider the oligopolistic competition across wholesalers that drives price and demand fluctuations. Furthe...

PurposeThe aim of this paper is to review and reflect on the sustainability agendas and achievements reported by Europe’s leading food and drinks wholesalers. Design/Methodology/ApproachThe paper begins with a short introduction to corporate sustainability, sustainability reporting and food and drinks wholesaling within Europe and the empirical material for the paper is drawn from reports and i...