ABSTRACT
This chapter extends the knowledge, and feeds into the debate on agricultural growth policies. It focuses on the poverty-alleviating impact of development assistance and trade policies of the European Community/Union. The chapter provides a positive outlook on the growth of horticultural production and distribution and marketing in the low income countries of Uganda and Vietnam. It explores what conditions must be fulfilled at an early stage of sector growth to maximize poverty alleviation in the longer run, along two central themes: poverty alleviation via export horticulture vis-a-vis domestic markets, and types of marketing arrangement in relation to poverty alleviation. The chapter describes the contribution of selected horticultural commodity supply chains to poverty alleviation and reduction in Uganda. The horticulture marketing chain is important for the creation of jobs and income for people in northern Vietnam.
