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.

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

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.

A Global Learning Network was launched today [to be completed].A video of the First Study Tour and Workshop is available at www.rimisp.org/video/