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Agriculture and Natural Resources -
Markets and Information Standards
To
what extent has the private sector, through issues such as
the globalisation of supply chains, the growth in informal
standards and value chain concentration, become the main source
of both potential benefits and obstacles to poverty reduction
in agriculture? What role is there for public policy (e.g.
competition policy, political pressure on northern buyers,
technical assistance, work on international standards) to
increase producer benefits from the value chain, both in terms
of higher prices and reduced volatility and insecurity? |
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Key
Papers
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Between the Local Trade in Natural Products, Livelihoods and
Poverty Alleviation in a Semi-arid Region of South Africa. Rhodes
University, South Africa. S. Shackleton, B. Campbell, H. Lotz-Sisikta,
C. Shackleton. 2007 PDF
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Reader:
Agribusiness and Value Chains.
GTZ PDF
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The
Participation of the Poor in Supermarkets and other Distribution
Value Chains
by Paule Moustier, et al. Making Markets Work Better for the
Poor Discussion Paper No. 11, ADB. October 2005 PDF
/ Briefing 13 PDF
/ Bulletin PDF
/ Bulletin Vietnamese PDF
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Links
among Supermarkets, Wholesalers, and Small Farmers in Developing
Countries: Conceptualization and Emerging Evidence
Thomas
Reardon et al, June 2005 PDF |
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Agricultural
Workers and their Contribution to Sustainable Agriculture and
Rural Development.
Peter Hurst with Paola Termine and Marilee Karl (FAO, ILO, IUF)
Oct 2005 PDF
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Concentration
in food supply and retail chains
DFID Agriculture and Natural Resources Working
Paper 13, 2004 PDF |
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Supermarkets,
fresh produce and new commodity chains: what future for the
small producer?
DFID Hot Topic Summary Word
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Can
small producers survive escalating formal & informal produce
standards?
DFID Hot Topic Summary Word |
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Agricultural
Markets and the Rural Poor
Draft backgound paper for the Poverty Reduction Network (POVNET),
David Orden, Maximo Torero and Ashok Gulati, IFPRI, March 2004.
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Trading Away Our Rights: Women working
in global supply chains. Oxfam 2004. PDF |
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Ethical
Trade in African Horticulture: Gender, Rights and Participation
S. Smith, D. Auret, S. Barrientos, C. Dolan, K. Kleinbooi, C.
Njobvu, M. Opondo and A. Tallontire, IDS Working Paper 223,
2004
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The
changing face of the global food industry.
Grievink, J.W. 2003. Presentation at the OECD Conference on
Changing Dimensions of the Food Economy: Exploring the Policy
Issues , 2003. PDF |
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Projects
and Lessons
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The
Urban Producers Resource Book. A Practical Guide for Working
with Low Income Urban and Peri-Urban Producers Organizations.
FAO, 2007 HTML
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Assessing
Small-holder Participation in Value Chains: the case of vegetables
in Honduras and El Salvador.
Governance,
coordination and distribution along commodity value chains.
Rome, 4-5 April 2006 FAO, 2007. HTML
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Production
and Markets: Case Studies
Read about Practical Action's latest experiences in enabling
poor women and men to use technologies to build secure livelihoods,
through improved systems of production, processing and marketing
in Bangladesh, Peru, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Zimbabwe. HTML
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Producer
Organisations: A Practical Guide to Developing Collective
Rural Enterprises
This
publication from OXFAM describes different types of producer
organisations, and draws out learning points and key factors
affecting their success, based on ten case studies from Albania,
Colombia, El Salvador, Georgia, India, Malawi, Mozambique, Palestine,
and Viet Nam. HTML
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Related
DFID Speeches and New Stories.
International Development Secretary kick-starts national debate
on ethical shopping. Secretary of State Speech ‘Buy
African flowers on Valentine's day to help make poverty history’.
A speech regarding air miles and flowers, with links to relevant
DFID policy.
UK
backs tracking system to net pirate fishermen. The Minister
for International Development meet supermarkets to champion
measures designed to deter illegal fishing and boost consumer
confidence.
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Small-Scale
Producers and Standards in Agrifood Supply Chains.
Strengthening the resilience of rural economies, through exploring
opportunities for more favourable outcomes for small-scale producers
in developing countries to participate in international horticultural
supply chains, given increasing concentration in the food retail
sector and the rise of private standards. HTML
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Global
Trade Theme Discussions and Reports
from DFID consultation on the role of agriculture in growth
and poverty reduction (14 April - 28 May, 2004) HTML |
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POVNET
- DAC Network on Poverty Reduction The Task Team
on Agriculture aims to develop a shared understanding of issues
underlying the role of agriculture in pro-poor growth. Key
areas of work include: access to markets, risk/ vulnerability,
smallholders and changes in the value chain. Agriculture team
homepage HTML
Presentations and papers HTML
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Ethical
Trade in African Horticulture: Gender, Rights and Participation
An in-depth assessment of gender and ethical trade in export
horticulture in South Africa, Kenya and Zambia. Explored ways
of making corporate codes of conduct more inclusive of, and
relevant to, different types of workers, especially women and
non-permanent workers. Background HTML |
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Regoverning
Markets: a collaborative research project analysing
growing concentration in the processing and retail sectors
of national and regional agri-food systems and its impacts
and implications for rural livelihoods and communities in
18 countries in five. Project homepage HTML
Documents and publications HTML
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Race
to the Top Tracking supermarket progress
towards a greener and fairer food system. Are they sourcing
food from wherever it can be produced at lowest cost with the
lowest ethical, environmental, animal welfare and labour standards?
Or are they competing on social, environmental and ethical performance
- a 'race to the top'? Homepage HTML |
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