Market-Driven International Fish Supply Chains: The Case of Nile Perch from Africa’s Lake Victoria

摘要

This paper analyses the organisation of the post-harvest Nile perch supply chaincentred on Lake Victoria in East Africa to test the practical relevance of themarket-driven supply chain thesis proposed by Folkerts and Koehorst (1998). Itfinds that while international consumer demand, particularly in demandingimproved quality standards according to HACCP principles, is having profoundlocal organisational ramifications, the evolving supply chain is presently bestcharacterised as being a hybrid one – neither exclusively production, nor marketdriven.