![]() The study shows that actors envisage a sustainability change which determines their actions however, their perceptions towards future transitions are not actively coordinated. Qualitative expert interviews, structured questionnaires and field observation, as well as a focus group discussion have been applied to understand how a sustainability transition can be triggered. This exploratory research investigates potential future pathways for the cocoa sector in Cameroon by mapping the perceptions of actors involved in the socio-technical regime. Given the persistent poor livelihood of cocoa-farming households, future climate predictions and the worldwide demand pressure for higher cocoa quality and productivity, there is still a strong need to find new approaches that guarantee a sustainable cocoa future in cocoa-producing countries amongst which Cameroon is one of them. It was found that even the concept of GSCM is under construction and there are altogether 231 articles that raise various trends and approaches GSCM, most of them focused on the automotive and construction. The latter is a management approach that integrates the design stages, manufacturing, purchasing, distribution and logistics through practices that involve the entire supply chain, seeking to achieve the TBL (triple bottom line) to maximize the environmental, economic and social benefit.Ī literature review was proposed in Scopus bibliographic manager and Springer Link, from Boolean operators to analyze the evolution of the concept, practices that compose and trends on the field. To do this, companies establishing control strategiesĪnd mitigation of environmental impact and cleaner production, as green procurement or green supply chain management. Reforms are also needed in the existing marketing mechanism to make a change in it, in an 'actor-activity-client oriented beneficial and profitable' direction.Ĭompanies are increasingly addressed toward sustainability, due to internal agents as senior management and employees and external stakeholders, such as national and international regulations, society and the market, to mitigate and/or eliminate impacts to the environment. This showed the necessity of tactical policy integration in value chain procedural development in tomato. Value chain mapping revealed that producers share in consumers' price in net benefit terms for C1 was 52.06% and for C2 was 27.06% though the value added for tomato till reaching the final consumers in both channels were apparently same. Data collected from the study area revealed the existence of two marketing channels with different players and interconnection (C1: Producer-Retailers-Consumer and C2: Producer-Whole sellers-Retailers-Consumers) on which tomato farmers were dependent to reach the final consumers. ![]() Estimation of production dynamics showed an average cost of production of tomato as ₹ 80077/ha with an average net return of ₹ 158123/ ha. The present investigation is an attempt to map the tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) value chains existing in the Champawat district of the Uttarakhand (during 2016-17) to know the market dynamics in it.
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