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IIED/Hivos Provocation Insights 2: Rights-based versus marketbased development: a false dichotomy for small-scale farmers?
… constructive debate around the agenda of ‘making markets work’ for small-scale farmers. Over the past decade, development policy and discourse have … Sustainable markets … 2: Rights-based versus marketbased development: a false dichotomy for small-scale farmers? …
Publication, 01 March 2011
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Small producer agency in the globalised market: making choices in a changing world
… International expectations for the world’s half-billion small farms are growing, against a very dynamic backdrop. Small-scale farming is expected to contribute solutions in areas ranging from … already set up to do that are reaching only a narrow minority of farmers. To get the future right for the majority there is a need to ask …
Publication, 01 November 2012
Book urges new development agenda for small-scale farming
… — shows how mainstream efforts to make markets work for poor farmers can fail to operate in tune with the ways such farmers … policymakers and donors expect, interventions that aim to upgrade small-scale farmers into high-value, formal supply chains and modern markets … Sustainable markets … Book urges new development agenda for small-scale farming …
News, 29 November 2012
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Small-scale farmers' decisions in globalised markets
… There are some 435 million small-scale farmers in Asia, most of whom cultivate land parcels of less than 2 … Sustainable markets … Small-scale farmers' decisions in globalised markets …
Publication, 01 November 2012
Provocation 1: Producer agency and the agenda to make markets work for the poor
… About the series: Making markets work for small-scale farmers?  Local and international participants gathered to discuss a … Sustainable markets … Provocation 1: Producer agency and the agenda to make markets work for the poor …
Event, 01 January 2015
Roasted coffee beans.
World Food Day: how do you keep co-operatives competitive?
… support. They were often guided by political interests rather than by farmers’ concerns and needs. Add social conscience for success But new … state support, but now its 80 member cooperatives represent 50,000 small-scale coffee growers, and it is a top exporter in volumes and quality. … Sustainable markets …
Insight, 15 October 2012
A woman wearing a chef's uniform and hat poses in front of a breadmaking machine
Getting personal: tailoring support to power up Tanzania’s rural businesses
… To increase income and productivity, small rural businesses need help in electrifying their operations. But … line with seasonal income fluctuations. Lenders often offer this to farmers, but less so to other rural businesses, despite their incomes … . Collaboration is key All this begs the question: can you tailor and scale simultaneously?  It comes back to cross-sector collaboration. …
Insight, 01 December 2020
Supporting smallholders: markets, rights, or sovereignty?
… presentation arguing that the only way to support development for small-scale farmers is to empower them to set their own trade rules and values. He … Sustainable markets … Supporting smallholders: markets, rights, or sovereignty? …
Article, 09 March 2011
Regoverning Markets publications
… assess how modernization of the food system can include and benefit small-scale farmers. Chain-Wide Learning for Inclusive Agrifood Market Development. … Sustainable markets … Regoverning Markets publications …
Article, 09 August 2013
A growing call for organisation
Article, 02 June 2011