Doran, Alan and McFadyen, Ntongi and Vogel, Robert C. | 2009
- Author(s): Doran, Alan and McFadyen, Ntongi and Vogel, Robert C.
- Publisher: Oxfam
- Pages: --
- Keywords: finance, small enterprises, farmers associations, enterprise development, agribusiness
The unmet needs for finance of producer associations and other SMEs (small- and medium-sized enterprises) in agriculture, for transactions in the range £5,000-500,000 constitute the missing middle. The crucial issue is how to overcome the barriers to scaling-up the private sector's response.
Dougherty, Joe | 2009
- Author(s): Dougherty, Joe
- Publisher: USAID
- Pages: --
- Keywords: agricultural product marketing, small farms, agricultural credit, banks, training programmes, agricultural mechanization, southern africa, zambia
This seminar presentation draws lessons from a value chain finance project in Zambia that aimed to improve agricultural credit and timely ploughing by training and supporting credit suppliers.
Downing, Jeanne | 2008
- Author(s): Downing, Jeanne
- Publisher: USAID]
- Pages: --
- Keywords: enterprise development, small enterprises, purchasing, guidelines, project implementation
The developmental goals of the value chain approach are discussed, the broader framework used to analyse value chains is outlined, and best practices in project design are presented.
Ducommun, Gil | 2006
- Author(s): Ducommun, Gil
- Publisher: AGRIDEA]
- Pages: 33--38
- Keywords: agricultural product marketing, urban areas, food production, small farms, poverty alleviation, development policy, agribusiness, industrialization, west africa, burkina faso
Farmers in Burkina-Faso earn more from the sales of food products than from cotton. Policies are suggested to further mobilize the potential of food product marketing for poverty reduction.
Dunn, Elizabeth | 2006
- Author(s): Dunn, Elizabeth
- Publisher: ACDI/VOCA. Accelerated microenterprise advancement project (AMAP)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: enterprise development, small enterprises, agribusiness, handicrafts, guatemala, honduras, india, kenya, mexico, mozambique, pakistan
Case studies of 4 types of upgrading of small enterprises are analysed: process upgrading (for production efficiency), product upgrading (for qualitative improvement), functional upgrading (for higher value-adding), and channel upgrading.