Tjalling Dijkstra (Leiden University)

Submitted:  Fri, 9 June 2000


Dr. Tjalling Dijkstra
Afrika-Studiecentrum
Leiden University
P.O. Box 9555
2300 RB
Leiden
The Netherlands

phone:    +31-71-5273396
fax:      +31-71-5273344
e-mail:   DijkstraT@fsw.leidenuniv.nl


Afrika-Studiecentrum Web site: http://asc.leidenuniv.nl


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.

Current research:

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.