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Food Standards and Smallholders Upgrading in Local Linkages

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dc.creator Nguni, W.
dc.date 2016-01-26T08:38:07Z
dc.date 2016-01-26T08:38:07Z
dc.date 2015-09
dc.date.accessioned 2018-04-18T12:36:39Z
dc.date.available 2018-04-18T12:36:39Z
dc.identifier Nguni, W. (2015) Food Standards and Smallholders Upgrading in Local Linkages: Evidence from Horticultural-tourism Value Chain in Zanzibar, Advances in Economics and Business 3(9): 410-419, 2015
dc.identifier DOI: 10.13189/aeb.2015.030907
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/194
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/11413
dc.description The study examines the influence of food safety, health and quality standards on smallholders upgrading in local linkages between agriculture and tourism sectors in developing countries. It draws evidence from horticultural-tourism value chain in Zanzibar as a case study. In-depth interviews with the tourist hotels’ procurement managers/chefs, intermediaries, individual smallholders, key informant from farmer organization, focus group discussions, observation and documentary review were conducted. Collected data was qualitatively analyzed through pattern matching technique. The results show that smallholders are heavily challenged to comply with food standards given their small size and lack of resources and support among others. These limit their ability to upgrading farming activities and access tourist hotels’ market. As a result the local linkage between agriculture and tourism in Zanzibar is persistently weak. This suggests that rural policies need to be redesigned to enhance smallholders upgrade and comply with food safety, health and quality standards.
dc.description DANIDA under BSU-GEP (Building Stronger Universities – Growth and Employment) project and University of Dar es salaam Business School (UDBS)
dc.language en
dc.publisher Horizon Research Publishing Corporation
dc.subject Standards
dc.subject Smallholders
dc.subject Upgrading
dc.subject Value Chain
dc.subject Local Linkage
dc.subject Horticulture
dc.subject Zanzibar
dc.subject Tourism
dc.title Food Standards and Smallholders Upgrading in Local Linkages
dc.title Evidence from Horticultural-tourism Value Chain in Zanzibar
dc.type Journal Article, Peer Reviewed


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