Market Governance

Small Producer Agency in the Globalised Market

This programme sets out to map, elicit and integrate knowledge on the dilemmas confronting small-scale producers in global, regional and national markets.

The programme recently got underway with the establishment of a global peer-to-peer learning network, led from Bolivia by IIED international fellow Diego Muñoz.  The first of three sets of regional consultations took place in Peru and Nicaragua in August 2009. IIED, together with partners Hivos (Netherlands) and Mainumby (La Paz) organised two round table discussions, in Lima and Managua, with potential partners from Central and South America. Further regional consultations will take place in Asia and Africa later in the year.

Regoverning Markets

www.regoverningmarkets.org
This flagship project has recently concluded. Focusing on corporate concentration in the global food sector and its consequences for sustainable development, the goal was to secure more equitable producer and trade benefits in response to the dynamic changes in agrifood market restructuring.

Small-scale producers and standards in agrifood supply chains

www.agrifoodstandards.net
This joint DFID-IIED-NRI three-year programme has recently come to a close. The programme explored opportunities for small-scale producers in developing countries to participate in international horticultural supply chains - particularly those in the UK.

Sustainable commodities

We are building a major programme of work on the linkages between market structure and the ability of primary commodity markets to deliver on environmental and socio-economic objectives.

Information and communications technologies for sustainable development

Focusing on the rising importance of technologies for communications, knowledge and capacity building in sustainable development.