Major changes have been occurring almost unnoticed in staple value chains in Asia. The Quiet Revolution in Staple Food Value Chains documents and explains the transformation of value chains moving rice and potatoes between the farm gate and the consumer in Bangladesh, the People’s Republic of...
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by Thomas Reardon, Kevin Chen, Bart Minten, Lourdes Adriano in 2013
by Stephen Greenberg in 2013
Progressive agrarian transformation has rhetorically encompassed a shift to small-scale agriculture in South Africa since at least 1994 when the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) proposed reorienting agricultural support towards small-scale production. However, material support for...
by Joost Nelen, The Broker in 2013
Connecting (small-scale) farms to new markets and value chains remains at the centre of current market-based development initiatives and policies. They express a belief in the formal private sectors and markets as major vehicles for economic development and also achieving food security. This has...
by Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development in 2013
Cooperatives have historically been, and still are, important institutions in the global economic landscape, and have strong roots in food and agriculture. Conventional agriculture cooperatives work to increase the marketing power of farmers by pooling their products to achieve economies of...
by Dena Freeman in 2013
International development organisations have recently turned to value chain development as the new tool for poverty reduction and pro-poor growth. In line with current neoliberal economic thinking, this approach sees business and the market as the solution to poverty in developing countries....