Dietary fibers are at the forefront of nutritional research because they positively contribute to human health. Much of our processed foods contain, however, only small quantities of dietary fiber, because their addition often negatively affects the taste, texture, and mouth feel. There is thus an urge …

The research was done in order to identify the strategies that can link Duhuze cooperative farmers to the high value markets so that they can increase their income and well-being. The study was done due to the fact that the farmers of Duhuze cooperative in mushroom value chain do not have access to the …

The research was conducted to investigate the profitable value share for farmers of mandarin in Nagpur district in India. The study investigated current marketing channel, marketing constraints, including factors such as price quality of mandarin, their bargaining power and source of information and …

The objective of the study was to analyse chilli pepper value chain of smallholder farmers producing under Irrigation at KpandoTorkorin the Kpando municipality in the Volta region of Ghana. Specifically with regards to market access and associated problems in aspects of production which can lead to better …

This study was designed to identify the pre and postharvest factors affecting the quality of dry processed Hararge coffee along the chain for further good agricultural practice.

Beekeeping is an important practice for income generation in the southwestern part of Ethiopia. However, the beekeeping practice of smallholder farmers were highly dominated by traditional system and they sell their honey for the local collectors at local market, where the honey quality is not the major …

The purpose of this thesis is to verify the viability of chia as a high value crop for small-scale farmers in the remote areas of Lempira, providing recommendations to the problem owners and chain actors in the country.

An overview of innovations in a particular area, for example retail developments in the fashion sector (Van Vliet, 2014), and a subsequent discussion about the probability as to whether these innovations will realise a ‘breakthrough’, has to be supplemented with the question of what the added value is …

The production of biogas through anaerobic digestion is one of the technological solutions to convert biomass into a readily usable fuel. Biogas can replace natural gas, if the biogas is upgraded to green gas. To contribute to the EU-target to reduce Green House Gases emissions, the installed biogas …

Copyright enforcement by private third parties – does it work uniformly across the EU? Since the inception of Napster, home copying of digital files has taken a flight. The first providers of software or infrastructure for the illegal exchange of files were held contributory or vicariously liable for …