Implementing Programmes to Improve Safety and Quality in Fruit and Vegetable Supply Chains

Download or read book Implementing Programmes to Improve Safety and Quality in Fruit and Vegetable Supply Chains written by Maya Pineiro and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin American case studies on "Implementing programmes to improve safety and quality in fruit and vegetables supply chains: benefits and drawbacks" provide guidelines to improve understanding of the factors that facilitate and/or hamper the implementation of safety and quality improvements on the part of fruit and vegetable producers, especially small-scale ones, and also of the need to propose integrated solutions that take account of the producers' technical, administrative and economic capacities, together with the amount of institutional support needed in order to develop and /or strengthen these capacities.