Fair trade is a means of governing South-North supply chains to increase the benefits of international trade integration for poor southern producers of agricultural and handicraft goods. Although the approach itself is arguably innovative in comparison with commercially orientated supply chains, many consider that its formalisation within third-party, Fairtrade International certification, has ...

smallholder schemes will not survive Irrigation Management Transfer (IMT) as it is currently envisioned. For IMT to be successful in the African smallholder context, governments must first enhance the income-creation potential of smallholder irrigated farming by strengthening market access, promoting high-value crops and improving extension and technical support to smallholder irrigators. This ...

The Fair Trade (FT) initiative has been hugely popular with coffee consumers around the world, and yet the creation of durable producer rents is challenging in a competitive market environment. We model the FT premium actually received by producers and suggest that rents are in fact dissipated, but that this occurs in ways that are quite obscure to consumers. First, over-certification dilutes t...

The raw milk quality has increasing importance for producer and consumer as it is directly related to processing, production and price. The aim of present study was to determine the relationship among intramammary infection (IMI) and raw milk parameters in Jersey crossbred cows. Total 24 lactating Jersey crossbred cows were randomly selected and representative animal wise morning milk samples w...

Traidcraft Exchange and its sister business plc have been developing Fair Trade supply chains for over three decades. As core certified ‘Fairtrade' products become mainstream in UK markets since the late 1990s, has focused energies on bringing innovative small-producer organisations into wider system. The case study presented here is of rice sourced from smallholder farmers Myanmar's Ayeyarwady...

The present study investigates the gap between the daily milk production potential and the effective milk yields in six herds. These two parameters and their changes were observed in the Gharb irrigation scheme (northwest of Morocco), during a five months study period. They were analyzed in relation to the changes in the rations of the cows and in their live weights. Results reveal that under c...

This study contributes to the agribusiness supplier relationship management literature both empirically and theoretically. The paper presents results from a survey of 133 dairy producers in Malaysia, and paper identifies how Malaysian milk buyers can build a loyal customer base with their suppliers as a means to secure uninterrupted milk supplies. A structural equation model was conducted to te...