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About access to credit

How can value chain finance help to build profitable family farms ? Sustainable and equitable growth is only possible when rural areas are made to prosper, which in turn requires family farms to emerge...

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About Knowledge management practices

How access to information and knowledge leads to resilient family farming? Family farming, whether it occurs within a rural or urban setting, or a changing environment, requires relevant information...

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About commercial value chains

How can family farms integrate into and benefit from commercial value chains? What are the characteristics of family farms in ACP countries? First, poorer family farms generally use their limited...

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About the transforming power of ICTs

How is Information and communication technology transforming family farmers lives? Information and communication technologies (ICTs) in general facilitate access to timely and accurate information for...

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Stories from the ground

Carving out a future with kava Twenty-two year old Josepho Malang Buleban, from the island of Pentecost in the northern part of the Vanuatu archipelago, has used his farming skills and accountancy...

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Stories from the ground

Farm credit for women Farm credit offers new viable opportunities for the Haitian rural sector now that a yearned-for dream of women farmers has been fulfilled. At last, the hopes of women farmers have...

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Stories from the ground

Work Smart : Suriname 'Wroko Nanga Koni' project Healthy, small-scale, family farm systems in Suriname, as elsewhere, are considered indispensable to the social, environmental, and cultural vitality of...

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Stories from the ground

Mobile at last : Caribbean connections – marketing via mobile phone In the small village of Massey and Lauders, situated on the windward side of the island of St. Vincent, farmer Audrey Walters-Butler...

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Profitable family farming: the way forward

2014 has been celebrated as the International Year of Family Farming, demonstrating the growing recognition among the international community of the need to reposition family farming at the centre of...

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About access to credit

How can value chain finance help to build profitable family farms ? Sustainable and equitable growth is only possible when rural areas are made to prosper, which in turn requires family farms to emerge...

View Article

About Knowledge management practices

How access to information and knowledge leads to resilient family farming? Family farming, whether it occurs within a rural or urban setting, or a changing environment, requires relevant information...

View Article

About commercial value chains

How can family farms integrate into and benefit from commercial value chains? What are the characteristics of family farms in ACP countries? First, poorer family farms generally use their limited...

View Article

About the transforming power of ICTs

How is Information and communication technology transforming family farmers lives? Information and communication technologies (ICTs) in general facilitate access to timely and accurate information for...

View Article


Stories from the ground

Carving out a future with kava Twenty-two year old Josepho Malang Buleban, from the island of Pentecost in the northern part of the Vanuatu archipelago, has used his farming skills and accountancy...

View Article

Stories from the ground

Farm credit for women Farm credit offers new viable opportunities for the Haitian rural sector now that a yearned-for dream of women farmers has been fulfilled. At last, the hopes of women farmers have...

View Article


Stories from the ground

Work Smart : Suriname 'Wroko Nanga Koni' project Healthy, small-scale, family farm systems in Suriname, as elsewhere, are considered indispensable to the social, environmental, and cultural vitality of...

View Article

Stories from the ground

Mobile at last : Caribbean connections – marketing via mobile phone In the small village of Massey and Lauders, situated on the windward side of the island of St. Vincent, farmer Audrey Walters-Butler...

View Article


Profitable family farming: the way forward

2014 has been celebrated as the International Year of Family Farming, demonstrating the growing recognition among the international community of the need to reposition family farming at the centre of...

View Article
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