Tjalling Dijkstra

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	Netherlands
Title	Dr.
Affiliation	Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
Email	DijkstraT@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
Mailing Address	Afrika-Studiecentrum Leiden University P.O. Box 9555 2300 RB Leiden The Netherlands
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: +31-71-5273396 fax: +31-71-5273344
Websites	http://asc.leidenuniv.nl
Research Interests	Mr. Tjalling Dijkstra is an agricultural economist with interest in agricultural marketing. He has carried out research in Sierra Leone, Sudan, Kenya and Uganda. He wrote his Ph.D. thesis on the structure and development of horticultural marketing channels in Kenya. Since 1998 he has been involved in research on export diversification in Uganda and Kenya, looking at non-traditional agricultural exports. In 1999 the commercial edition of his Ph.D. thesis, "Trading the Fruits of the Land: Horticultural Marketing Channels in Kenya," was awarded the John Abbott Prize. Horticultural Commodity Reviews ; Export diversification in Uganda
Publications	Tjalling Dijkstra (with H.L. van der Laan and A. van Tilburg) (eds.) Agricultural marketing in Tropical Africa. Contributions from the Netherlands. Aldershot: Ashgate, ASC Research Series vol. 15, 1999, see contents. Trading the Fruits of the Land: Horticultural Marketing Channels in Kenya. Structure and development. Aldershot: Ashgate, ASC Research Series vol. 11, 1997. "Food Assembly Markets in Africa: lessons from the horticultural sector of Kenya." In: British Food Journal, vol. 98, no. 9, pp 26-34, 1996.
Keywords	horticulture ; development strategies ; export diversification ; agricultural development.