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Inclusive business in agrifood markets : evidence and action : a report based on proceedings of a conference held in Beijing, 5-6 March 2008

| 2008
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Institute for environment and development (IIED)]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agricultural product marketing, small farms, agribusiness, purchasing, markets, private sector
This report captures answers of the conference to questions such as: Are small-scale farmers being excluded from modern markets? What are successful linkages between small-scale farmers and emerging modern markets?

Linking market chain actors for effective policy

| 2008
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Institute for environment and development (IIED)]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agricultural product marketing, small farms, market access, private sector, capacity building
Innovation in chain-wide learning can help to understand the changes taking place at national levels and inform public policy and private sector action to secure broad-based, pro-poor and inclusive market development.

Farmer innovation : linking with modern agrifood markets

| 2008
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Institute for environment and development (IIED)]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agribusiness, innovations, agricultural product marketing, market access, small farms, development policy, business management
Evidence shows how farmer innovation can achieve successful inclusion of the small-and family-scale farm in modern dynamic agrifood markets at national and regional levels. Collective action remains an important strategy.

Business innovations for inclusive agrifood markets

| 2008
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Institute for environment and development (IIED)]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agribusiness, agricultural product marketing, small farms, small enterprises, agriproduct processing, organizational structure, capacity building
The potential of modern agribusiness as driver for the inclusion of small-scale producers in dynamic markets is explored. The biggest challenge remains organizing supply: quantity, consistency, quality, safety and traceability.

The role of public policy in inclusive agrifood markets

| 2008
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: International institute for environment and development (IIED)]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: small farms, poverty alleviation, agricultural product marketing, agribusiness, economic policy
This paper looks at the evidence of how public policy and donor policy can work for inclusion of the poor in dynamic markets, even within an overall framework of liberalized markets.
 

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