Tools Scope Insight Offers rating assessments to small-to-medium farmer organizations’ capacity and organizational performance Additional Reading Food and Agriculture Organization Annual Report on FAO activities in support of producers’ organizations and agricultural cooperatives, 2011 Food and Agriculture Organization Building Networks for Market Access, 2011 International Food Policy Research Institute Contracting Out of Poverty: Experimental Approaches to Innovation in Agricultural […]
Tools IFC Performance Standards on Environmental and Social Sustainability IFC Crop Supply Chain Productivity Diagnostic IFC Livestock Supply Chain Diagnostic University of Wolverhampton Guide for Developing a Logical Framework Additional Reading The Top 100 Questions of Importance to the Future of Global Agriculture Smallholders in a Rapidly Changing World? Organizations with Expertise The World Bank has easily […]
Smallholder Farmers: What Firms Need to Know The Basics A smallholder farm in a developing country is usually a family-owned enterprise producing crops or livestock on two hectares or less. Many smallholders are not farmers by choice: they farm because they lack access to other economic opportunities. There are about 525 million smallholder farms worldwide: 388 million in […]
The Business Case Agriculture’s Global Challenges Agribusinesses operate in a rapidly changing world. Demand for agricultural crops is expected to double as the world’s population reaches 9.1 billion by 2050. Rising incomes, urbanization, and changing lifestyles will drive greater consumption of resource-intensive commodities, such as meat, dairy, and bio-fuels. Yet the resources needed for food […]
