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Tropical Commodity Coalition

NGOs: friend or foe to markets for the poor?

6 April 2011
Blog entry
Food and agriculture
Sustainable markets

Non-governmental organisations can play a key role in facilitating efforts to make markets work for the poor but they do not always reach the most vulnerable groups and can sometimes harm local businesses.

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