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Africa, Blog, Case Studies, Market Access, Principle 3: Build local access and capacity, Principle 5: Enable access to markets, Regions, Subjects

Supporting Smallholder Cassava Farmers in Nigeria

June 14, 2010 No comments yet

As part of GCARD 2010, Farming First hosted a session entitled ‘Better Benefiting the Poor through Public-Private Partnerships for Innovation and Action.’ Within the discussions, our panel of experts addressed several case studies that present different ways that partnerships have helped to empower smallholder farmers around the world.
Scott Mall – International Fertilizer Development Center

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Case Studies, North America, Principle 2: Share knowledge, Principle 3: Build local access and capacity, Principle 4: Protect harvests, Principle 6: Prioritise research imperatives, Regions, Research, Subjects

Interactive Map Celebrates Agriculture’s Success Stories Across the World

October 20, 2009 No comments yet

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has just launched an interactive world map highlighting some of the many success stories in agricultural development from around the world.  It is part of a wider upcoming launch of their newest publication, Millions Fed: Proven Successes in Agricultural Development, which will be released on 12 November.
The interactive

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Africa, Case Studies, Market Access, Principle 5: Enable access to markets, Regions, Subjects

Empowering African Cooperatives to Access Markets

March 25, 2009 2 comments

TradeNet, a Ghana-based trading platform allows users to sign up for SMS alerts for commodities and markets of their choice and receive instant alerts for offers to buy or sell as soon as anyone else on the network has submitted an offer on their mobile phone.
Users can also request and receive real-time prices for more

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