Value Chains for Development

Linking worlds : new business models for sustainable trading relations between smallholders and formalized markets

Vorley, Bill | 2009
  • Author(s): Vorley, Bill
  • Publisher: IIED [etc.]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agribusiness, small enterprises, small farms
The goal of this paper is to provide a set of workable principles and processes for companies and support agencies for improving the market performance of smallholder farmers and fostering longer term business relations along the value chain.

Tipping the balance : policies to shape agricultural investments and markets in favour of small-scale farmers : research report

Vorley, Bill and Cotula, Lorenzo and Chan, Man-Kwun | 2012
  • Author(s): Vorley, Bill and Cotula, Lorenzo and Chan, Man-Kwun
  • Publisher: Oxfam international
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agricultural policy, investment policy, small farms, agriculture, developing countries
The report identifies key policy levers that can tip commercial investments in favour of either small- or large-scale farming. It shows how policy levers influence market governance to constrain or support the fair sharing of risk and reward between small-scale producers and the rest of the market.

Global food chains : constraints and opportunities for smallholders

Vorley, Bill and Fox, Tom | 2004
  • Author(s): Vorley, Bill and Fox, Tom
  • Publisher: OECD
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agribusiness, purchasing, globalization, small farms, risk management, development policy, business enterprises
Identifies options for governments, donor agencies, and businesses to reduce the risks of polarization between agribusiness and small-scale farming systems and of a reduction in benefits of liberalization.

Small producer agency in the globalised market : making choices in a changing world

Vorley, Bill and Pozo-Vergnes, Ethel del and Barnett, Anna | 2012
  • Author(s): Vorley, Bill and Pozo-Vergnes, Ethel del and Barnett, Anna
  • Publisher: International institute for environment and development (IIED) [etc.]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: small farms, agribusiness, market access, developing countries
This book challenges our institutions and the development community, both in terms of our assumptions on the roles of smallholders and agribusiness and how we go about the process of generating knowledge and developing effective policies and interventions.

Inclusive agrifood markets : emerging findings from a programme of research and policy development

Vorley, Bill and Proctor, Felicity | 2007
  • Author(s): Vorley, Bill and Proctor, Felicity
  • Publisher: Institute for environment and development (IIED)]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agribusiness, markets, small farms, development policy, social justice, capacity building, private sector
Regoverning Markets case studies show that agrifood market restructuring is occurring rapidly in most countries. Private sector attention to pro-poor and inclusive business models is emerging.
 

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The Value Chains for Development portal provides access to selected free, full-text electronic documents on pro-poor value chains.