Challenges for smallholder market access: A review of literature on institutional arrangements in collective marketing

Stewart Postharvest Review

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Ton, Giel ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cooperatives, bulking; Enabling policies; Farmers' organisations; Markets; Opportunistic behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 55049136201     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17459656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2212/spr.2008.5.1     Document Type: Review

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