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  • Contract farming and Access to Energy for Women Farmers in Malawi
    Contract farming and Access to Energy for Women Farmers in Malawi – August 2023 Learning Brief

    The Renewable Energy for Agriculture (RE4A), a partnership with Modern Farming Technologies (MFT), a Malawian…

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  • Agricultural adaptation to climate change
    Agricultural adaptation to climate change

    Poor and rural communities in developing countries are among the worst affected by climate change….

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  • Coffee Agroforestry: Transforming a vital agricultural sector for a conservation and development ‘win-win’ in Peru
    Coffee Agroforestry: Transforming a vital agricultural sector for a conservation and development ‘win-win’ in Peru
    The objective of this paper is to promote collaboration in policy and planning between business-oriented…
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  • Scaling up Agroecology Through Market Systems
    Scaling up Agroecology Through Market Systems
    To eradicate extreme poverty means focusing on the 500 million smallholders so they can reliably…
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  • Coffee agroforestry as a win-win solution in Peru
    Coffee agroforestry as a win-win solution in Peru

    Coffee is the second most popular drink globally and the most important agricultural commodity in…

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  • Community-based land and water management for adaptation at scale in Sudan
    Community-based land and water management for adaptation at scale in Sudan

    Changes in the reliability and intensity of rainfall add stress to farming systems already under…

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  • Bio-dykes: Working with nature to reduce flood losses
    Bio-dykes: Working with nature to reduce flood losses

    The Terai plains in Nepal are inhabited by indigenous communities farming soils enriched by annual…

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    Smallholder Agriculture and Market Participation by Nigel Poole
    Smallholder Agriculture and Market Participation: Lessons from Africa (2017)

    Nigel Poole

    Poor farmers face steep barriers to participation in different types of markets, including the lack of financing, and the unwillingness of commercial finance organizations to lend to remote, dispersed, small-scale farming households. Smallholder Agriculture and Market Participation discusses the evolution of policies for smallholder development, including the role of value chains.

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