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  • New from World Bank: Building Competitiveness in Africa's Agriculture: a guide to value chain concepts and applications

    vendredi 21 mai 2010 [IIED Markets News]

    Webber, C. Martin; and Labaste, Patrick. World Bank, 2010 Abstract: The development and business communities recently have experienced a tremendous resurgence of interest in promoting value chains development as a way to add value, lower transaction costs, diversify rural economies, and contribute...

  • Regional Publication from SEARCA - Changing Agrifood Markets in Southeast Asia: Impacts on Small-Scale Producers

    dimanche 28 mars 2010 [IIED Markets News]

    Edited by Larry Digal, Felicity Proctor, Bill Vorley, 2009ISBN: 978-971-560-145-0 Publisher: SEARCA, 356 pages This book is an intensive collaborative research and policy support program undertaken to understand the keys to inclusion into agrifood systems under different degrees of restructuring,...

  • New from KIT: Farmers as shareholders

    mercredi 10 février 2010 [IIED Markets News]

    Bulletin 390 - Farmers as shareholders: A close look at recent experience Maurits de Koning | Bart Steenhuijsen Piters, de Bulletins of the Royal Tropical Institute | ISBN 9789460220395 | KIT Publishers, Amsterdam | Paperback | 120 p. | 2009 This bulletin is written for people who want to learn...

  • Walmart aims to cut supply chain cost

    vendredi 15 janvier 2010 [IIED Markets News]

    FT.com January 3, 2010 Walmart is launching a drive this year to cut billions of dollars of costs from its supply chain by combining its store purchasing across national frontiers in a new stage in the globalisation of its business. The effort is part of plans by the world's largest...

  • New from FAO, UNIDO, IFAD: Agro-industries for Development

    vendredi 12 juin 2009 [IIED Markets News]

    Edited by C A da Silva, FAO, Italy; D Baker, FAO, Italy; A W Shepherd, FAO, Italy; S M da Cruz, UNIDO, Austria; C Jenane, UNIDO, Austria. August 2009 Agro-industries for Development highlights the current status and future course for agro-industries and brings attention to the contributions this...