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Book (stand-alone)Urban food supply and distribution in developing countries and countries in transition - A guide for planners 2008
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No results found.While only too well aware of the complexity and variety of contexts in developing countries, the authors of this guide describe the principal activities of food supply and distribution systems (FSDSs) and suggest planning criteria for managing the physical and spatial dimensions of the city in order to improve the quantity, quality, variety and safety of food, and to help low-income urban populations to access it. -
No Thumbnail AvailableBook (stand-alone)The Constraints on Food Supply and Distribution Systems to African Towns: The Viewpoints of FSDS Actors
Food Supply and Distribution to Cities
1997Also available in:
Despite differences in pace and sequencing of adjustment programmes, economic liberalization has had far-reaching effects on the structure and the relative importance of actors involved in the supply and distribution of food in most African cities. Market reforms called for significant changes in the role of public and private sector agencies in food supply and distribution. Most public trading and marketing organizations previously responsible for marketing local and imported goods have been el iminated or privatized, while the private sector have now taken centre stage in food supply systems in many African cities. In Guinea, for instance, traders no longer need a licence or permit to import and/or distribute foodstuffs and are only required to submit import applications to banks. In Senegal and Burkina Faso, the role of the Ministry of Trade in food supplies is limited to drawing up and applying regulations for the whole trade sector. Major problems have arisen, however, as a result of these changes largely because of capacity constraints which limit the ability of the private sector to operate an efficient food supply chain. The public sector is similarly constrained in performing its facilitating role of supporting private initiative and coordinating an effective food supply policy for cities. Many actors face a variety of problems in performing their essential functions, including financing, purchasing, storage, transport, sales, coordination and planning. -
Book (stand-alone)Methodological Approaches To Analysis Of Food Supply And Distribution Systems
Food Supply and Distribution to Cities in French-speaking Africa
1998Also available in:
This work is intended to provide an overview of the ways different disciplines approach analysis of food supply and distribution systems (FSDSs), showing the conceptual and methodological tools used. The list of approaches is admittedly incomplete and the description brief. The aim of the description is twofold: to define the area(s) covered by each discipline; and describe the specific role each can play in an interdisciplinary approach to research on FSDSs. Research focuses on some g eneral questions: Which disciplines are concerned with this subject? What are the bases on which they approach it? What methodologies do they use? What type of results do they reach? Are they alternatives, or complementary to one another? On what level(s) are they effective? Some portions of the present work are based on documents drawn up by specialists for this purpose (the geographical, nutritional and legal approaches). The following approaches are examined: economic (neoclassica l, pipeline, evolutionary), historical, geographical, nutritional and legal. The pipeline approach is further divided into a socio-economic and geographical approach (a special section is also devoted to the latter). The point of this whole essay in methodological description lies not so much in the reading of each approach as in their juxtaposition. The various approaches belong to a wide range of scientific fields, but come together when the FSDSs are considered not as an abstrac t activity but as the outcome of dynamic processes arising in a given environment in some area, at a given moment in its development, and managed by agents with specific aims.
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