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SMALLHOLDER FARMERS

Blog
June 8, 2017
Toward leaner and more effective value chain development. Special journal edition on inclusive VCD and associated services
Since the early 2000’s, practitioners and researchers have been working on ways to design market-oriented development interventions with smallholders. Many
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Blog
July 8, 2016
Business models to benefit women and men farmers: LINK methodology with gender lens
This story by Tatiana Gumucio originally written for the CIAT blog tells about how adding a specific gender lens to the already
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Blog
April 25, 2016
Book synopsis: Innovation for inclusive value-chain development: Successes and challenges
Innovation for inclusive value-chain development: Successes and challenges, a forthcoming book edited by André Devaux, Maximo Torero, Jason Donovan, and Douglas
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EnGendering Data Blog
March 24, 2016
What do we mean by ‘women’s crops’?
Revisiting the issue of gender and commercialization: What happens to women’s control when these crops find a market? 
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Blog
February 26, 2016
Call for papers: “Enterprise Development and Microfinance” special edition on value chain development in agriculture
Enterprise Development and Microfinance (EDM), a peer-reviewed international journal providing a forum for those involved in designing and running value
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Blog
March 9, 2015
Presentation: Foresight modeling to guide sustainable intensification of smallholder systems
At last week’s international conference on Integrated Systems Research for Sustainable Intensification in Smallholder Agriculture, Dolapo Enahoro, agricultural economist  and member of
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Blog
February 19, 2015
Savouring diversity: supporting community seedbanks in South Africa’s smallholder farming areas
For ages, rural farmers have maintained local seeds, and through them crop biodiversity, using indigenous knowledge passed to them by
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Blog
November 25, 2014
Enhancing women’s assets to manage risk under climate change: potential for group-based approaches
PIM’s lead center IFPRI has just released a collections of notes under the project “Enhancing Women’s Assets to Manage Risk
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Blog
November 17, 2014
African Dairy Value Chain Seminar: lessons, tools, approaches to African dairy development
As we've already reported earlier, in September 2014, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation
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