Smallholder access to the export market: The case of vegetables in Kenya

Outlook on Agriculture

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 203-211

  Mithöfer, Dagmar ^a   Nang'ole, Eddah ^a   Asfaw, Solomon ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

EurepGAP; Export sector; Kenya; Smallholders; Vegetable production

Indexed keywords

PHASEOLUS VULGARIS;

EID: 54949115786     PISSN: 00307270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/000000008785915476     Document Type: Review

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