Verhart, Noortje and Pyburn, Rhiannon | 2010
- Author(s): Verhart, Noortje and Pyburn, Rhiannon
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan [etc.]
- Pages: 356--361
- Keywords: women, empowerment, women's status, coffee, agricultural production, trade liberalization, globalization, social justice, gender research, guatemala
A value chain (VC) approach is used to look at opportunities to improve women's positions in global trade. Trade relations influence men's and women's opportunities to improve their position in a VC differently. Interventions can enable the revaluation of women's contribution to coffee production.
Verkuijl, Hugo | 2008
- Author(s): Verkuijl, Hugo
- Publisher: Full belly project
- Pages: --
- Keywords: agricultural production, small farms, fuels, oilseed plants, agriproduct processing, west africa, mali
Various aspects of a dutch-malinese biodiesel project are discussed, including the universal nut sheller of the FullBelly Project and the integration of jatropha cultivation in the local farming system.
Vermeulen, Sonja | 2008
- Author(s): Vermeulen, Sonja
- Publisher: Wageningen university and research centre [etc.]
- Pages: --
- Keywords: agricultural product marketing, guidelines, export promotion, small farms, institutional infrastructure, innovations, co-operation between organizations, capacity building
This guide provides a methodology for finding ways to better link small-scale producers to modern markets involving multi-stakeholder learning. It is has been developed with partners from Asia and Africa.
Visser, Piet | cop. 2012
- Author(s): Visser, Piet
- Publisher: SNV Ethiopia
- Pages: --
- Keywords: agriculture, public services, market access, private sector, africa
This book presents the approaches and lessons learned in The Business Organisations and Their Access to Markets (BOAM) programme.
Vorley, Bill | 2012
- Author(s): Vorley, Bill
- Publisher: European centre for development policy management (ECDPM) [etc.]
- Pages: --
- Keywords: farmers associations, market access, capacity building, developing countries
The question addressed in this issue of Capacity.org is how small-scale farmers and their organisations can best be helped to develop their capacities so that they can improve their circumstances and assume a position of strength in society, with a focus on the issue of producer agency.