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Case studies that assess & improve social and environmental performance of value chains

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Source: Sustainable Food Lab A growing number of case studies describe the efforts of Food Lab members to assess and improve the social or environmental performance of specific supply chains. Some of the cases come from the Healthy Value Chains Network created by the Food Lab, WWF, and the Society for Organizational Learning. Download Innovations for Healthy Value Chains: Cases, Tools, and Methods, a compilation of the written cases so far, followed by a draft framework of tools and more...

Added by Lisa M. Cespedes on August 07, 2010

Agri-business incubation helps local communities to protect crops and create jobs

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On 29 April, 2010, infoDev and the Agriculture and Rural Development department of The World Bank held a ‘brown bag lunch’ on business incubation in the US and what lessons might be learnt for other parts of the world. The focus was on agri-business incubators.Speakers from agri-business incubators in the US said that business incubation is one way to deliver on key areas of action in the World Bank Group’s Agriculture Action Plan (FY2010-2012). Done right, agri-business incubators can help more...

Added by Zunia on August 01, 2010

Cooperatives for staple crop marketing

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The evidence from Ethiopia indicates that they do increase farmers’ profits from crop sales, but that the beneficiaries do not tend to be the poorest smallholders. Moreover, a rural producer organization’s marketing effectiveness is precarious: it can easily diminish if the number or diversity of its members increases or if it provides more nonmarketing services. The authors conclude that these organizations have a role to play in the agricultural development of Sub-Saharan Africa, but that more...

Added by Zunia on August 01, 2010

Innovations in rural and agriculture finance

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This set of 14 briefs clearly points out the importance of business realities faced by small farmers, including low education levels, the dominance of subsistence farming, and the lack of access to modern financial instruments. These conditions mean that new and innovative institutions are required to reach small farmers. Emerging communication technologies provide new opportunities for rural banking by reducing business costs and alleviating information asymmetries. New financing instruments, more...

Added by Zunia on August 01, 2010

Bulgaria - Public expenditure review for agriculture and rural development

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Although Bulgaria now implements the European Union's (EU's) "common" agricultural policy (CAP), national policymakers still maintain responsibility to tailor CAP implementation to meet the specific development needs of the country. The National Rural Development Program (NRDP) very appropriately lays out the challenges that Bulgarian agriculture and rural development face, but the early implementation of a relatively high number of support schemes falls short of adequate administrative more...

Added by Zunia on June 04, 2010

Videos from TEDxWorldBankGroup Event

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Videos from the TEDxWorldBankGroup event are now available online! The presenters at the event were: On Gender - Irene Khan, former Secretary General of Amnesty International (AI)On Agriculture - Nancy Roman, Director of Public Policy, Communications and Private Partnerships of the UN World Food Programme (WFP)On Water - Jason Clay, Senior Vice President of Market Transformation at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)On Climate Change - Kenneth Chomitz, Senior Adviser at IEGAnna Mwalagho Performing more...

Added by Bahar Salimova on June 01, 2010

Information, direct access to farmers, and rural market performance in central India

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This paper estimates the impact of a change in procurement strategy of a private buyer in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Beginning in October 2000, internet kiosks and warehouses were established that provide wholesale price information and an alternative marketing channel to soy farmers in the state. Using a new market-level dataset, the estimates suggest a significant increase in soy price after the introduction of kiosks, supporting the predictions of the theoretical model. more...

Added by Zunia on May 01, 2010

Providing Broad-based Services for Market-Driven Rural Finance in Afghanistan

In 2006, AED launched USAID’s largest rural finance program to date – the $100 million Agriculture, Rural Investment and Enterprise Strengthening (ARIES) program – with the aim of creating a strong private sector foundation for a sustainable, market-driven rural finance system in Afghanistan. Through ARIES, AED and its partners worked to develop new market and enterprise opportunities through technical assistance and grants. The ARIES partners offered a wide range of financial products and more...

Added by FIELD-Support LWA at AED on April 21, 2010

Risk and Risk Transfer in Agriculture

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"The current food crisis has manifested itself in high prices of most major food crops, posing the risk of serious hardship for consumers, and especially the most vulnerable poor. The crisis has prompted a search for measures that might boost the supply of food crops (and curtail “unnecessary” demand, such as that for biofuel feedstock). But why would such interventions to boost production be necessary? Shouldn’t the dramatic increase in prices provide a sufficient market incentive for more...

Added by Zunia on April 20, 2010

Business management for tropical dairy farmers

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Tropical dairy farming, Australian John Moran draws on his extensive experience working with dairy farmers in South and South East Asia to offer this very detailed manual on the business side of things. It is primarily aimed at lecturers, tertiary students and dairy advisers, and is intended to offer a curriculum for taught courses. Two possible courses are suggested: a basic one on farm business management, and a more advanced one on improving the business skills of smallholder dairy farmers. more...

Added by Zunia on April 08, 2010

Innovative policy Mexico: Mexico Strategy for the inclusion of small and medium-sized avocado producers in dynamic markets

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"Michoacan is, by far, the principal Mexican and world producer of avocado. At present, 75 per cent of production is destined for the local market, with the rest being exported to the world market, mainly the United States (US). Mexico is also the world's biggest consumer of avocados. Small producers are responsible for most avocado production in the State of Michoacan."

Added by Zunia on February 11, 2010

Agribusiness and the cooperative farmer model: The Jing Hai chicken production cooperative

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"This case study of the Jin Hai Chcken Cooperative in Hai Men county, Jiangsu, is an example of how a cooperative acted as intermediary and played an important role in connecting the Pillar agribusiness enterprise and a very large number of smallj-scale farmers."

Added by Zunia on February 11, 2010

Innovative Practice China: Collective action by small-farm households in big markets- Ruoheng farmer watermelon cooperative

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"Various forms of institution innovation are being stimulated by new factors, both incentives to produce and compulsory regulations. These innovations enrich rural markets and the produce supply chain. The farmer cooperative is a theoretically and practically feasible institutional innovation created by this environment. Small-farm households are entering markets collectively. Many Chinese and foreign scholars have been researching this field from different perspectives."

Added by Zunia on February 11, 2010

Innovative practice in connecting small-scale producers with dynamic markets

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"This paper is based on 38 empirical case studies where small-scale farmers and businesses connected successfully to dynamic markets, doing business with agri-processors and supermarkets. The studies aimed to derive models, strategies and policy principles to guide public and private sector actors in promoting greater participation of smallscale producers in dynamic markets."

Added by Zunia on February 10, 2010

Chain-Wide Learning Guide for Inclusive Agrifood Market Development - A Guide

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"This guide provides concepts and tools for working with actors along the entire value chain so that modern markets can be more inclusive of small-scale producers and entrepreneurs. It:Explains the drivers of change in modern agrifood marketsProvides a framework for analysing how institutions and policies shape the risks and opportunities for small-scale producers and entrepreneursShows how to design multi-stakeholder processes that help actors from along the chain work together to realise more...

Added by Zunia on February 10, 2010

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