Private food safety and quality standards for fresh produce exporters: The case of Hortico Agrisystems, Zimbabwe

By S. Henson, O. Masakure, D. Boselie. 2005

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Plant Science, Strategy and Management

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Adoption of food safety and quality standards among Chilean raspberry producers - Do smallholders benefit? (2013, background): “In Zimbabwe for instance, the exporting company Hortico Agrisystems has solved typical smallholder sourcing problems like non-compliance or high monitoring cost by implementing screening routines and self-enforcement mechanisms (Henson et al., 2005).”
Non-Tariff Measures and Standards in Trade and Global Value Chains (2015, background): “Nelson et al. (2007) point to similar findings for the adoption of social codes of conducts in the South African wine and the Kenyan cut flower industry.”
Public–private partnerships and collective action in high value fruit and vegetable supply chains (2009, background): “The UK supermarket chain imposes the most stringent food safety standards (Jaffee, 2003; Henson et al., 2005); it requires third party certification from EurepGAP,(2) British Retail Consortium (BRC) and, in most cases, retailers’ private food safety protocols.”
Are middlemen facilitators or barriers to improve smallholders' welfare in rural economies? Empirical evidence from Ethiopia (2016, background): “Contract farming schemes, vertical integration and producer organizations are cited as important institutions that have emerged to address the market access challenges (Bijman, 2008; Henson et al., 2005; ).”
Contract farming configuration: Smallholders’ preferences for contract design attributes (2013, unknown): “When seed is sourced from the buyer firm, quality (and supply) of the seed is assured, but farmers are bound to sell the output only to the buyer firm (Henson et al., 2005).”
The Future of Small Farms for Poverty Reduction and Growth. 2020 Discussion Paper; No.42 (2007, background): “Indeed, the best known (Hortico in Zimbabwe [Henson et al. 2005]) has unusual features and apparently recently collapsed owing to the overvalued exchange rate.”
The Future of Small Farms: New Directions for Services, Institutions and Intermediation (2010, background): “…mechanisms (and learning) for farmer monitoring and support and (i) mechanisms which allowed produce buyers and farmers to respond to supermarkets' (limited) changes in quality and quantity demands across and within product lines (Boselie et al. 2003; Henson et al. 2005; Masakure 2004).”
Agrifood Industry Transformation and Small Farmers in Developing Countries (2009, result): “While the Sri Lanka paper shares with these export papers the treatment of highly labor-intensive crops (tea and vegetables), in which small farms can have an advantage, the Sri Lanka shares with the Zimbabwe paper on Hortico Agrisystems the importance of policy change shifting exporters away from l”