Samenvatting

Kenya is among the top ten avocado exporters in the world and the top exporter in Africa. There is a rising demand for good quality avocados in the domestic market in Kenya and globally. Food safety is also increasingly becoming a big concern for consumers of fresh food in local and domestic markets. Global standards in food safety have seen stakeholders in food chains become more cognizant of the need to have tracing mechanisms in the food value chains. This then, calls for increased joint efforts to improve quality, improve reputation and gain access to wider markets. ICT based solutions have been hailed as having an important role in developing integrated traceability solutions that include all the processes and stakeholders in value chains. This research has been carried out as part of Food Waste Reduction and Food Quality Living LAB FORQLAB – Kenya Project