 Moving ForwardKevin McKague and Muhammad Siddiquee Chapter Chapter 15 in Making Markets More Inclusive, 2014, pp 203-210 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract Value chain approaches to development have become increasingly popular with nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), donors, companies, foundations, and multilateral organizations. This popularity has been driven by a continuing search for impact, sustainability, and scale in efforts to allow smallholder farmers to work their way out of poverty. Functioning markets have been a central factor in allowing the majority of the world’s people to improve their health, education, and material standards of living over the last several generations. In spite of this dramatic overall improvement, however, perhaps a billion of the world’s poorest people have been left out of opportunities to increase their agricultural productivity and access markets. Most of these people live in rural areas in South Asia and Africa, and more than half of the poorest billion are smallholder farmers who earn some kind of income from keeping livestock. Especially in rural areas, women face additional social barriers to earning incomes and are often the poorest of the poor. Keywords: Smallholder Farmer; Farm Group; Lead Firm; Multilateral Organization; Shop Owner (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-37375-5_15 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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