How can the poor benefit from the growing markets for high value agricultural products?

Junior Davis

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: This paper aims to identify critical areas for trade, marketing, capital market development and regulatory reforms that can facilitate the integration of small-scale farmers (small-scale farmers) in domestic, regional and global markets for high-value agricultural (HVA) products in particular high value crops, livestock, fish and non timber forest products in a sustainable manner and to increase and diversify the incomes of small-scale farmers in the long-run. The paper places particular emphasis on the issues that may need to be addressed through research and development undertaken by the international, regional and national research communities.

Keywords: high-value agricultural commodities; agri-food marketing; agricultural research and development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q13 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-01
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