Title: Food product marketing : the principal cash source of farmers in Burkina Faso - largely ignored by the policy makers

Authors: Ducommun, Gil

Place: [Lindau

Publisher: AGRIDEA]

Year: 2006

Journal: Rural development news

Volume: 2/2006

PAGE: 33--38

Subject: Value Chains for Development

Keywords: agricultural product marketing, urban areas, food production, small farms, poverty alleviation, development policy, agribusiness, industrialization, west africa, burkina faso

Abstract: 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.

URL: http://www.agridea-international.ch/fileadmin/10_International/PDF/RDN/RDN_2006/Food_marketing.pdf

Document type: Portal