Items tagged:
Markets
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What do street food, charcoal, gold, mobile phones and milk have in common?
Informality may be responsible for many things produced, processed or sold by people who operate outside formal rules and regulations, but small markets add up to big business
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Book urges new development agenda for small-scale farming
A three-year study of the ways small-scale farmers operate in Africa, Asia and Latin America has prompted calls for a major rethink of development and business interventions.
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How small-scale farmers make markets work for them
Our new book shines light on how small-scale farmers are making their choices — about how to modernise appropriately, and about balancing costs, risks, benefits and uncertainties.
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World Food Day: how do you keep co-operatives competitive?
The Food and Agriculture Organization's 2012 World Food Day focuses on co-operatives.This time around co-operatives need to be what the small-scale farmers actually want. Sometimes that means something quite informal.
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Nature has values, and markets can be governed
The environmental community has been rightly wary of markets. But payments for environmental services can play a role in protecting nature, so long as governments guide, govern and regulate such markets.
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Looking beyond land to support rural youth
This was one of the conclusions of participants at a provocative seminar ‘Rural youth today, farmers tomo
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Green Economy Coalition gives Rio 2012 text a Grade B
Twenty years on from the first summit on sustainable development, yesterday the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development Bureau released th
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Productores de pequeña escala como actores en el mercado globalizado. Encuentro de la Red de Aprendizaje Latinoamericana, Lima, setiembre 2011
Los miembros latinoamericanos de la la Red Global de Aprendizaje del Programa de Conocimientos HIVOS/IIED/Mainumy Ñakurutú, ‘Productores de pequeña escala como actores en el mercado globalizado’ se reunieron en Lima del 12 al 16 de setiembre pasados. Junto con varias organizaciones prestigiosa organizaron y participaron en una serie de reuniones y eventos.
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Small-scale producers in the globalised market
The Latin American Learning Network members of the Knowledge Programme ‘Small producer agency in the globalised market’ convened in Lima from 12 to 16 September. They organised and participated in a series of meetings and events in conjunction with various prestigious organisations. The highlight of the programme was the International Forum ‘Small-scale producers: Actors in Globalised Markets and Food Security?’ on 14 September, organised by the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.
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Just how inclusive is ‘inclusive business’?
Discussion at the latest of the IIED-Hivos ‘provocations’ in Brussels last week (22 June) suggests that the first step in assessing how ‘pro-poor’ business contributes to development and smallholder empowerment, is to understand what we mean by the word ‘inclusive’.
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Fair trade: still centred on smallholders?
To what extent do approaches such as fair trade, corporate social responsibility and inclusive business models allow the private sector to meet commercial objectives while also reducing poverty and empowering small-scale farmers? This was the question posed at the latest in a series of IIED and Hivos ‘provocations’ held at the European Parliament in Brussels last week (22 June).
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Provocation 5: Pro-poor business, development and smallholder empowerment
The fifth in a series of seminars on markets and small-scale farmers took place in Brussels, Belgium on 22 June 2011. View video and reports from the event
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Investing in smallholders and workers is good for business
Across the developing world, food systems and supply chains are changing — exports are rising, particularly in fresh foods, supermarkets are playing an increasingly important role and there is a growing number of standards for safety, ethics and environment.
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Provocation 4: Making markets work for smallholders or wage labour?
The fourth in a series of six seminars on markets and small-scale farmers took place in Manchester, United Kingdom on 25 May 2011.
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A growing call for organisation
In The Hague, Stockholm and Paris we have heard the call for more support to producer organisations through which small-scale farmers can have a voice in the market. This call was re-iterated at the latest IIED/HIVOS provocation ‘Making markets work for smallholders or wage labour?’ — held in Manchester, United Kingdom, last week, in collaboration with The University of Manchester.
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Fast track out of poverty: farm labour or smallholder?
When IIED and Hivos launched their ‘provocation’ seminars late
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Markets for the poor: the gap between theory and practice
Within development circles, there’s a common, if recent, mantra that the key to reducing poverty in the global South lies in investing in agriculture. Increasingly that investment focuses on building bridges between small-scale farmers and private markets in approaches known as ‘markets for the poor’.
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Supporting small-scale farmers: rights or markets?
Development support for small-scale farmers must be based on both the enforcement of basic human rights and a pro-poor development of markets.
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Provocation 3: Making markets work for the poor - contents and discontents
The third in a series of six seminars on markets and small-scale farmers took place in Paris, France on 30 March 2011.
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Provocation 2: Rights-based versus market-based development
The second in a series of six seminars on markets and small-scale farmers took place in Stockholm, Sweden on 3 March 2011. Watch video of the event.
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Making markets work for small-scale farmers? A series of ‘provocation’ seminars
IIED, Hivos and collaborating institutions organised a travelling series of ‘provocation’ seminars to challenge conventional wisdom on how to include smallholders in markets and bring fresh perspectives to the discussion on what works and why.
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Has agriculture been a winner in the economic downturn?
While the downturn has hit many economic sectors hard, have farmers prospered?
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Turning the spotlight on agriculture
Have we glimpsed real signs of economic recovery?
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Asian ideas sought as small-scale farmers face challenges of globalisation
Small scale producers, agribusiness entrepreneurs, researchers, nongovernmental organisations and others from across Asia, will gather in India next week to suggest solutions to the challenges conf
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Global network to help African farmers navigate globalised markets
The network will gather producers, business people, nongovernmental organisations and others from across the global South to produce knowledge that can inform better policies and practices.
