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Welcome to our new online learning platform! We hope you find the resources available on this site useful. Please check back often to learn about new publications, projects and events. |
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Agriculture remains the best opportunity for the estimated 1.5 to 2 billion people worldwide living on small farms to work and trade their way out of poverty. Linking smallholders with well-functioning markets plays a critical part in long-term strategies to reduce poverty and hunger. At the same time, including smallholders in supply chains offers companies a chance to diversify and increase resilience in their supply base, while also appealing to ethically-motivated consumers. While the potential benefits are great, organizations also struggle with the challenges of linking diverse and fragmented smallholders to formal markets – and there are real barriers and risks that must be addressed.
This website is a resource for practitioners and researchers who are taking on these challenges. It facilitates the sharing of experiences and “new business models” through research papers, case studies, tools, impact studies, and descriptions of active “action-learning” projects – thereby helping companies and NGOs become more effective at realizing both development and commercial benefits.
While “modern markets” (defined as coordinated supply chains with specific requirements such as product quantity, timing, quality, and standards) are the primary focus of this website, many of the tools and lessons are relevant to markets of any type.
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NGO's
know there’s a development case that improvement in small scale farming
is directly associated with a reduction in poverty and hunger. For
retail buyers there can be a business case about differentiation,
managing…
