This book provides a collection of conceptual and methodological chapters on the socio-economic aspects of vegetable production-to-marketing systems in Africa. The diverse topics covered in this book include the conceptual challenges in economic research on vegetable production systems, the...

This chapter briefly discusses vegetable production and marketing issues and constraints in Africa.

This chapter outlines a framework for the impact assessment of production standards including an outline of potential impact pathways. Its main example is Kenyan horticulture and the private process standard GlobalGAP, but it also draws on other standards. The chapter links changes potentially...

This chapter investigates the differences in the impact of compliance with Global-GAP standards on Kenyan export vegetable-producing farms. It presents empirical findings on the effects of vegetable export standards across farm sizes, namely smallholder, large-scale contracted and large-scale...

This chapter focuses on the effect of private food production standards on the welfare of farm workers in Kenya. The chapter is divided into several sections. The section, Conceptual Framework and Methodology, describes the application of the Sen?s functionings approach in the context of production ...

This chapter discusses the externalities of pesticide use in vegetable production in Kenya. Through secondary data analysis, individual farmer interviews, pesticide residue analysis, expert interviews and workshops, the health and environmental costs of farmerś pesticide use are estimated. The...

This chapter presents a case of economic impact assessment of classical biological control and pesticide use in Kenya and Tanzania, targeting the diamondback moth, one of the most destructive pests of cabbage worldwide. The effect of the release of an exotic parasitoid by the International Centre...

A study was conducted in 5 districts in Kenya (Muranga, Thika and Maragua in Central Province, and Makueni and Embu in Eastern Province) to determine the factors linked to the acquisition of integrated pest management (IPM) knowledge and sharing among the two different group-based farmers, as well...

This chapter presents a framework for the analysis of supply chains as deemed adequate for African conditions (section 1). The criteria for a theory-driven socioeconomic research framework are described (section 2), and a series of methodologies that have been successfully applied in the...

The organization of this chapter is as follows: the following section (Emerging Food Safety Standards) discusses the regulatory EU public standards in comparison with private voluntary food safety standards; the third section (Conceptual Framework) presents the general theoretical framework for...