Thanks Fred for sharing success stories on connecting rural farmers to global markets. As you mentioned there is a business case for companies to work with smallholder farmers while there are also incentives encouraging smallholders to supply modern agrifood value chains.
Those interested in sharing experiences - good and bad - of linking smallholder farmers to markets and reading classic and new case studies of such links can join the LF2M Dgroup: https://dgroups.org/cta/lf2m (It'll only take you 43 seconds of your time.)
This site will soon be featuring an Agrifood Chain Toolkit set up by the CGIAR to share methods and tools for value chain capacity building and analysis devised by researchers with field insights from value chain practitioners.
Thanks Fred for sharing success stories on connecting rural farmers to global markets. As you mentioned there is a business case for companies to work with smallholder farmers while there are also incentives encouraging smallholders to supply modern agrifood value chains.
Those interested in sharing experiences - good and bad - of linking smallholder farmers to markets and reading classic and new case studies of such links can join the LF2M Dgroup: https://dgroups.org/cta/lf2m (It'll only take you 43 seconds of your time.)
This site will soon be featuring an Agrifood Chain Toolkit set up by the CGIAR to share methods and tools for value chain capacity building and analysis devised by researchers with field insights from value chain practitioners.