http://www.search4dev.nlOnline library for Dutch development cooperationenwww.kit.nldpcmedewerkers-uba@uva.nldpcmedewerkers-uba@uva.nlWed, 19 Jun 2013 23:10:56 CEST/d/dprn/graphics/bbhead.gifhttp://www.search4dev.nlhttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/440676http://www.search4dev.nl/record/440676This book analyses the experiences of 3 Research-into-Use (RIU) Africa Country Programmes, which used innovation platforms to facilitate innovation, and 2 best-bet projects, which used a competitive funding mechanism to support private sector driven initiatives to get research outcomes into use.P. Gildemacher (edt)R. Mur (edt)http://www.search4dev.nl/record/440243http://www.search4dev.nl/record/440243What changes do we need to empower women smallholders and achieve food security? This question has been asked repeatedly over the past several decades, but transformative changes in both public policy and practice have been few and far between. In this context, nine international development agencies have produced this briefing to share the lessons learned based on their experience of promoting gender equality and working with women smallholders and rural women over many decades. This paper concludes with a number of recommendations for policy makers on measures to help close the gender gap in agriculture.R. TripathiY.B. ChungK. DeeringN. SaraciniR. WilloughbyO. WillsM. MikhailH. WarburtonD. JayasingheJ. RafanomezanaM. Churmhttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/439044http://www.search4dev.nl/record/439044This is the summary of the strategic plan of Agri-Profocus for the years 2009-2012. Agri-ProFocus (APF) is a partnership with Dutch roots that promotes farmer entrepreneurship in developing countries. The partnership was founded in 2005 with the aim of rallying together professionals, expertise and resources around a joint interest in farmer entrepreneurship. The Agri-ProFocus network members are organisations and companies that gather, train, connect and provide inputs and credit to farmer entrepreneurs and producer organisations. The network operates both at a Dutch(-based) level and at a developing country level, the latter in so-called Agri-Hubs. By promoting entrepreneurship and connecting producers with national and international markets, Agri-ProFocus members aim to both open up market potential for business in developing countries, as well as meet with the challenge of sustainably feeding 9 billion people by 2050.Agri-Pro-Focushttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/439042http://www.search4dev.nl/record/439042This is the the strategic plan of Agri-Profocus for the years 2013-2016. Agri-ProFocus (APF) is a partnership with Dutch roots that promotes farmer entrepreneurship in developing countries. The partnership was founded in 2005 with the aim of rallying together professionals, expertise and resources around a joint interest in farmer entrepreneurship. The Agri-ProFocus network members are organisations and companies that gather, train, connect and provide inputs and credit to farmer entrepreneurs and producer organisations. The network operates both at a Dutch(-based) level and at a developing country level, the latter in so-called Agri-Hubs. By promoting entrepreneurship and connecting producers with national and international markets, Agri-ProFocus members aim to both open up market potential for business in developing countries, as well as meet with the challenge of sustainably feeding 9 billion people by 2050.Agri-Pro-Focushttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/439041http://www.search4dev.nl/record/439041This is the annual report of Agri-ProFocus for the year 2008. Agri-ProFocus (APF) is a partnership with Dutch roots that promotes farmer entrepreneurship in developing countries. The partnership was founded in 2005 with the aim of rallying together professionals, expertise and resources around a joint interest in farmer entrepreneurship. The Agri-ProFocus network members are organisations and companies that gather, train, connect and provide inputs and credit to farmer entrepreneurs and producer organisations. The network operates both at a Dutch(-based) level and at a developing country level, the latter in so-called Agri-Hubs. By promoting entrepreneurship and connecting producers with national and international markets, Agri-ProFocus members aim to both open up market potential for business in developing countries, as well as meet with the challenge of sustainably feeding 9 billion people by 2050.Agri-ProFocushttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/439040http://www.search4dev.nl/record/439040This is the annual report of Agri-ProFocus for the year 2009. Agri-ProFocus (APF) is a partnership with Dutch roots that promotes farmer entrepreneurship in developing countries. The partnership was founded in 2005 with the aim of rallying together professionals, expertise and resources around a joint interest in farmer entrepreneurship. The Agri-ProFocus network members are organisations and companies that gather, train, connect and provide inputs and credit to farmer entrepreneurs and producer organisations. The network operates both at a Dutch(-based) level and at a developing country level, the latter in so-called Agri-Hubs. By promoting entrepreneurship and connecting producers with national and international markets, Agri-ProFocus members aim to both open up market potential for business in developing countries, as well as meet with the challenge of sustainably feeding 9 billion people by 2050.Agri-ProFocushttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/439036http://www.search4dev.nl/record/439036This is the annual report of Agri-ProFocus for the year 2010. Agri-ProFocus (APF) is a partnership with Dutch roots that promotes farmer entrepreneurship in developing countries. The partnership was founded in 2005 with the aim of rallying together professionals, expertise and resources around a joint interest in farmer entrepreneurship. The Agri-ProFocus network members are organisations and companies that gather, train, connect and provide inputs and credit to farmer entrepreneurs and producer organisations. The network operates both at a Dutch(-based) level and at a developing country level, the latter in so-called Agri-Hubs. By promoting entrepreneurship and connecting producers with national and international markets, Agri-ProFocus members aim to both open up market potential for business in developing countries, as well as meet with the challenge of sustainably feeding 9 billion people by 2050.Agri-ProFocushttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/438134http://www.search4dev.nl/record/438134This is the annual report of Agri-Profocus for the year 2011. Agri-ProFocus (APF) is a partnership with Dutch roots that promotes farmer entrepreneurship in developing countries. The partnership was founded in 2005 with the aim of rallying together professionals, expertise and resources around a joint interest in farmer entrepreneurship. The Agri-ProFocus network members are organisations and companies that gather, train, connect and provide inputs and credit to farmer entrepreneurs and producer organisations. The network operates both at a Dutch(-based) level and at a developing country level, the latter in so-called Agri-Hubs. By promoting entrepreneurship and connecting producers with national and international markets, Agri-ProFocus members aim to both open up market potential for business in developing countries, as well as meet with the challenge of sustainably feeding 9 billion people by 2050.Agri-ProFocus partnershiphttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/436830http://www.search4dev.nl/record/436830The Bolivarian Alliance for Our Americas People’s Trade Agreement (ALBA-PTA), was established between Venezuela and Cuba in 2004 and now incorporates several other Latin American countries. This paper examines some of the social, economic, political and cultural aspects of ALBA-PTA in relation to small farmers’ agency. Building on insights provided by a case study of Venezuela and the ALBA experience in Bolivia and Nicaragua, it assesses whether small-scale farmers in ALBA countries are benefiting from policies or public and private institutional arrangements that empower them to enter and stay in markets; what opportunities exist for them to improve or exercise their individual and collective agency and to make better-informed choices about the markets in which they operate, and whether and how they influence policies.L. Micheluttihttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/436824http://www.search4dev.nl/record/436824International expecations for the world's half-billion small farms are growing, against a very dynamic backdrop. Small-scale farming is expected to contribute solutions in areas ranging from poverty reduction and food security to climate change adaptation. Most of the 'inclusive business' models and value chain interventions already set up to do that are reaching only a narrow minority of farmers. To get the future right for the majority, there is a need to ask the right questions. Instead of thinking about how to 'make markets work for the poor', we must look at how small-scale farmers make markets work for them. Farmers themselves are facing and effecting rapid changes in markets, in land and other resources, and in the demographics of rural communities. This book presents the results of a three-year Knowledge Programme led by IIED, Hivos and a global Learning Network. It integrates knowledge of researchers and practitioners working or trading directly with small producers across three continents. It focuses on agency, by looking at how small-scale farmers navigate formal and informal, global and local markets; their strategies, interests, expectations and limitations; and how they make choices in the dynamic context of a restructuring agrifood sector. From this persepective, globalisation and modernisation appear not to be sweeping the world economy clean, but spreading in parallel with vibrant informal and local economies. This book challenges our institutions and the development community, both in terms of our assumptions on the roles of smallholders and agribusiness, as well as on how we go about the process of generating knowledge and developing effective policies and interventions.B. VorleyE. Del Pozo-VergnesA. Barnett