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African economies are increasingly confronted with changing food and commodity markets, due to globalisation, economic liberalisation and urbanisation. Subsequently, consumer preferences change. This poses new opportunities but also challenges to small-scale producers, traders and processors...
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This paper develops a due diligence for electronic transactions with new partners in business networks with complex goods such as food products to enable the use of e-commerce potentials in first time transactions. The e-commerce due diligence is a means to reduce perceived risks and...
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entries of supermarket s and hypermarket s have had impacts on market structures and rationalization of marketing activities … marketing margins for main agro- food staples. After the greater price adjustment changes that occurred by the EU membership … marketing margins. This imply that agro- food markets in the new EU member states are becoming much more integrated into …
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In this work it explains the actual situation of organic production and marketing in Spain, studying and analyzing … exporting to other European countries, USA and others foreign markets, and it is necessary a new marketing strategies and … new marketing strategies and actions. …
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A quality differentiation strategy for agrifood products based on geographical origin and production method has become a viable alternative for certain firms in the internationalized food markets, if it could be considered as a rural development instrument. This method of adding value to their...
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difficulties in adapting their strategies to market changes, and in competing with big enterprises. Marketing management … capabilities play a key role in good SMEs performance in the market. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the marketing … capabilities of SMEs that produce TFPs. The theoretical framework considers the Market Orientation approach and marketing …
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-structured interviews directed at Italian large scale retails (purchasing and marketing managers). The final information were obtained …
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The paper analyses the current differentiation strategies in the market for fresh produce. First a short review of the literature on channel structure and product differentiation is presented, in order to identify, on a theoretical grounding the incentives for differentiation strategies. Second,...
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The main question posed in the paper asks why do some cooperative arrangements in agricultural markets survive and succeed and others fail? We define success and factors affecting success of cooperation using transaction costs theory and game theory. Transaction costs theory provides insights on...
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This paper highlights a market information and linkage system (MILS) developed and tested by the Kenya Agricultural Commodity Exchange Limited (KACE) that increases the efficiency of agricultural markets to work better for smallholder farmers and other small and medium sized agro-enterprises...
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