This study assessed the firm-farmer relationships in smallholder dairy value chains in Borabu and Kiambu East districts of Kenya between July and August 2012. The objective of the study was identifying strategies for improving firm-farmer relationships by exploring the existing challenge areas.

Tomato is one of the most popular vegetables all over the world and the production was 145 million tonnes in 2011. In Taiwan and The Netherlands, tomato also became an important vegetable nowadays. In both countries, the farmer cooperatives are the way to help farmers accessing markets. However, Taiwanese …

Hoofdstuk 12 uit deel III: Uses of cultural technologies. The essays in this volume discuss both the culture of technology that we live in today, and culture as technology. Within the chapters of the book cultures of technology and cultural technologies are discussed, focussing on a variety of examples, …

The amount of used antibiotics is a large problem concerning human health. More and more resistance has occurred during the last years. The Dutch government has announced lowering of used antibiotics in the Netherlands has to be reached. The amount of used antibiotics can be described in several ways. …

In order to meet the growing demand, care farm Zorgboerderij ‘t Paradijs in Barneveld is currently developing a landschapshuis. This landschapshuis is to be seen as an informative centre which mainly focuses on informing a broad target group on cultural history and nature and landscape of the region …