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New from KIT: Trading up: building cooperation between farmers and traders in Africa

KIT Publishers, 2008

In much of Africa, smallholder farmers face serious difficulties selling their produce. But farmers, along with development agencies and governments, treat the traders who market their goods with suspicion and mistrust. This book shows how relations have been strengthened between the farmers, traders, wholesalers, processors and retailers in the value chain. It describes how they have built institutions (such as market information systems) and agreed on rules (such as standard weights and quality grades) to enable agricultural markets to function better.

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September 17, 2008 | New report from IFPRI - Promising Approaches to Address the Needs of Poor Female Farmers

by Agnes Quisumbing and Lauren Pandolfelli, IFPRI, 2008

This brief focuses on key agricultural resources needed by poor female farmers to generate incomes and ensure their families' food security. It is organized around key resources and promising approaches to increase poor women's control of those resources.

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October 12, 2006 | Regoverning Markets programme announces call for proposals

Regoverning Markets is pleased to announce a call for case study analyses for Component 2. We are seeking case study analyses of two types: (1) Full studies of innovative practices in connecting small-scale producers with dynamic markets; and (2) Short policy snapshots of policy innovations in the public or private sectors that have led to enhanced market participation by small-scale producers

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October 5, 2006 | The participation of the poor in supermarkets and other distribution value chains

Authors: Moustier, P. (et al.)
Produced by: International Finance Corporation (IFC) (2005)

The study assesses conditions for an increased involvement of the poor in the food value chains driven by supermarkets and other value-adding outlets. The trends of the different distribution chains were analysed through the gathering of secondary data. Surveys on poor consumers' access to different retailing points were made in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Moc Chau, as well as comparison of prices between the different points of sale in these cities. Four case studies investigated poor farmers' and traders' participation in distribution value chains.

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