عنوان

Quality and innovation in food chains :

9086868258

9789086868254

b599486

Quality and innovation in food chains :

[Book]

lessons and insights from Africa

edited by: J. Bijman, V. Bitzer.

Wageningen

Wageningen Academic Publishers

2016

(273 pages)

Improving product quality has become essential for food chains in developing countries. Quality and innovation in food chains: lessons from Africa presents a set of case studies on food quality improvement and innovation in African food chains, with cases from South Africa, Ethiopia, Benin, Uganda and Senegal. The book is based on interdisciplinary collaborative research projects. An interdisciplinary approach leads to better insights in the opportunities and constraints for quality improvement, and helps public and private actors in seizing the opportunities and removing the constraints. This publication shows how a co-innovation perspective can be developed and applied. Co-innovation entails the combination of technical, organisational and institutional changes, the involvement of various chain actors, and the introduction of complementary innovations at different levels of the food chain. Quality a

Agricultural industries -- Developing countries.

Business logistics.

Food supply -- Africa.

edited by: J. Bijman, V. Bitzer.

Jos Bijman

Verena Bitzer

[Book]

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