Topics Small Producers Agency
A Global Learning Network at work
Globalisation and particularly the food crises of 2007- 2008 and 2010-11 have renewed interest in agriculture and small-scale producers. Much of this interest has focused on connecting producers to markets. Governments, donors and the development community at large, as well as many in the private sector, have embraced the “pro-poor market” concept with the expectation that, through market inclusion, small-scale producers can survive and even prosper in the face of the major changes in agricul...
Tenth RRI Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change:
The convergence of global climate change, food insecurity, and political exclusion in the world’s poorest countries threatens to reverse global gains in poverty alleviation and raises the risks of conflict. Close to 1 billion people went undernourished in 2010, and climate change is putting millions of the world’s poorest people at an even greater risk. Meanwhile industrial agriculture and the demand for natural resources present a major threat to the rights and livelihoods of the rural...› read more...
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Date: 7 September until 8 September 2011 Location: Hotel Atlantic, The Hague (Kijkduin), The Netherlands
Tags: Worldwide, Small Producers Agency
Date: 7 September until 8 September 2011 Location: Hotel Atlantic, The Hague (Kijkduin), The Netherlands
"MUSEVENOMICS" analyzed
Popular understanding as postulated by Ugandan President Museveni suggests that if the prices of commodity prices go up, farmers should benefit by way of higher income. Morrison Rwakakamba from Uganda, a practicing economist and an active member of the Knowledge Programme on “Small Producers’ Agency in Globalised Markets” argues that while this might theoretically be true, the practice is a bit detached from the theory. He explains that certain structural factors inhibit the farmers fro...
Report of the fifth provocation online
The fifth provocation in the series of provocative seminars was held on Wednesday, June 22nd, in the European Parliament in Brussels and was hosted by Vredeseilanden, the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) and Richard Howitt, Member of the European Parliament. The provocation dealt with the topic of pro-poor business, development and producer empowerment.
Inclusive Improvement (5 June)
Hivos has been at the forefront of emerging intervention practices in the market approach for many years, moving from Fair Trade (since 1985) to Organic (since 1989) to micro-credit (since 1994) to Coffee Coalition (since 1999) to ISEAL (since 2001) to mainstreaming market access for smallholders (since 2004). This latest challenge has brought Hivos to showcase attempts to combine upgrading of quality and inclusion of smallholders in attractive market channels. The draft report of these colle...› read more...
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Date: 5 June : Location: ISS, Kortenaerkade 12, The Hague, The Netherlands
Tags: Small Producers Agency
Date: 5 June : Location: ISS, Kortenaerkade 12, The Hague, The Netherlands
Provocation Seminar Series: Pro-poor business, development and smallholder empowerment
The fifth in a series of six seminars on markets and small-scale farmers will take place in Brussels, Belgium on 22 June 2011, 10.30-13.30 in the European Parliament, Room A3H-1. Why this provocation? As interest in ‘markets that work for the poor’ grows, the private sector is changing how it works to be more inclusive of the rural poor. Approaches such as fair trade, corporate social responsibility and inclusive business models claim to meet commercial objectives while also reducing pov...
Making markets work for smallholders or wage labour?
The fourth in a series of six seminars on markets and small-scale farmers will take place in Manchester, United Kingdom on 25 May 2011, 12.00-16.30 (British Summer Time) and will also be available as a live stream on www.iied.org/provocation4. Download the flyer here.Development efforts to make agricultural markets work for the poor tend to focus on supporting small-scale farmers or producers. But what about the millions of poor rural workers employed in commercial operations such as plantati...Provocation Seminar Series: Making markets work for smallholders or wage labour?
The fourth in a series of six seminars on markets and small-scale farmers will take place in Manchester, United Kingdom on 25 May 2011, 12.00-16.30 (British Summer Time) and will also be available as a live stream on www.iied.org/provocation4. Download the flyer here.Development efforts to make agricultural markets work for the poor tend to focus on supporting small-scale farmers or producers. But what about the millions of poor rural workers employed in commercial operations such as plantati...
Provocation Seminar Series: Report of the third Provocation
The third Provocation was held in Paris, France on 30 March 2011 in association with hosting partners Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV) and Institut de Recherches et d Ápplications des Méthodes de developpement (IRAM).The Provocation was the third in a series of six being initiated by the IIED/Hivos Knowledge Programme: Small Producer Agency in globalised markets. The first was held in The Hague, Netherlands on 28 September 2010 on the topic Producer Agency and the agenda to “make ma...
Second Global Learning Network meeting April 2011
The second Global Learning Network meeting will take place from 4 th to 8 th April in Fort Portal, hosted by the Kabarole Research and Resource Centre (KRC), Uganda. Much has happened since the Learning Network last met in Geneva in April 2010 ( http://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/G02736.pdf ). The turbulence in the food and agriculture sector has gained particular attention from global leaders and dominates international agendas.› read more...
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Date: 4 April until 8 April 2011 Location: Ford Portal, Uganda
Tags: Worldwide, Small Producers Agency
Date: 4 April until 8 April 2011 Location: Ford Portal, Uganda
'Source it local'
Local sourcing is becoming an emerging way of doing business. Companies based in developing countries are sourcing from small scale producers and targeting the domestic market. Local sourcing is a business opportunity for companies who want to include sustainability, reduce costs by substituting imports, and at the same time supporting the local economy.› read more...
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Date: 20 April : Location: KIT Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam
Tags: Worldwide, Small Producers Agency
Date: 20 April : Location: KIT Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam
'Source it local'
Local sourcing is becoming an emerging way of doing business. Companies based in developing countries are sourcing from small scale producers and targeting the domestic market. Local sourcing is a business opportunity for companies who want to include sustainability, reduce costs by substituting imports, and at the same time supporting the local economy.
Second Global Learning Network meeting April 2011
The second Global Learning Network meeting will take place from 4th to 8th April in Fort Portal, hosted by the Kabarole Research and Resource Centre (KRC), Uganda.Much has happened since the Learning Network last met in Geneva in April 2010 (http://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/G02736.pdf ). The turbulence in the food and agriculture sector has gained particular attention from global leaders and dominates international agendas.
Changing Perspectives: Small-scale farmers, markets and globalization
The Knowledge Programme on ‘Small producers agency in globalised markets’ released this first Working Paper during the First Provocative Seminar and the Hivos Conference on Knowledge and Change which took place in The Hague from 28 September to 1 October.
Value Chain Financing, a concept of consequence
I lived for some time among the farmers in the uplands of the Philippines. Most of them grew hybrid maize, destined for the pig industry around Manila. A major feature of dally life was the constant indebtedness of the farmers with the local traders that supplied the farmers with credits for the seeds and fertilizer, in return for a high interest rate and obligatory delivery of the whole yield to the trader. Some farmers were trying to escape from the debt trap by returning to white maize, a...
Provocation Seminar Series: Video of the second Provocation online
The second in a series of six seminars on markets and small-scale farmers took place in Stockholm, Sweden on 3 March 2011. Take a look at the live stream videos at: www.iied.org/provocation2See also: Supporting smallholders: markets, rights, or sovereignty? and: Supporting small-scale farmers: rights or markets? for summaries on what has been discussed during the provocation.
Provocation Seminar Series: Making markets work for the poor - contents and discontents
The third in a series of six seminars on markets and small-scale farmers will take place in Paris, France, on 30 March 2011, 09.30-13.00 (central European time).Development policymakers and practitioners are turning to markets to alleviate poverty. The idea is that well functioning markets that integrate poor people as consumers, producers and workers will lead to economic development, growth and prosperity. But do linear interventions to ‘make markets work for the poor’ work for all? There i...
Rights-based versus Market-based Development: A false dichotomy for small-scale Farmers?
After a very insightful first provocative seminar on smallholders and the ‘pro-poor markets’ agenda in The Hague in September 2010, the second seminar ‘Rights-based versus Market-based Development: A false dichotomy for small-scale Farmers?’ in this travelling series initiated by Hivos and IIED is being organized in Stockholm on March 3rd, 2011 (12.30-16.30 European Central Time). The event is hosted by SIANI, Sida and the Swedish Cooperative Center and takes place at Klarabiografen at Kultur...
Climate Smart Development in the South
The next few years will be crucial for determining the policy response to climate change. Whereas mitigation of climate change and adaptation to its consequences have become important issues in the international policy arena, they have yet to become major policy issues within most developing countries, especially amongst the LDCs – countries that are actually amongst the most vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change. Until now, just a few countries have formulated adaptation progra...
Interview with Diego Muñoz Elsner
Bio: Diego Muñoz Elsner is the coordinator of the Global Learning Network on Small Producer Agency in the Globalised Market, part of the Knowledge Programme run by Mainumby in Bolivia, IIED in the UK and Hivos in the Netherlands. He is also an international fellow of the International Institute of Economic Development (IIED) and a researcher-partner and Executive Director of the Centro Mainumby-Ñakurutú. He holds a degree in Agricultural Engineering from Texas A&M University (USA) and a p...
Changing Perspectives: Small-scale farmers, markets and globalization
The Knowledge Programme on ‘Small producers agency in globalised markets’ released this first Working Paper during the First Provocative Seminar and the Hivos Conference on Knowledge and Change. This paper looks at some of the big dilemmas confronting small-scale producers. It revisits five decades of changes in policies, behavior and practices and highlights some areas of debate that have changed in light of the 2007-2008 global food crisis.
Changing Perspectives: Small-scale farmers, markets and globalization
The Knowledge Programme on ‘Small producers agency in globalised markets’ released this first Working Paper during the First Provocative Seminar and the Hivos Conference on Knowledge and Change which took place in The Hague from 28 September to 1 October.
Live stream provocative seminar producer agency
On 28 September 201 the first provocation of a series of provocative seminars by Hivos, IIED, Mainumby and partners took place in The Hague. The provocation was live-streamed. You can watch the debate and also bring in your own responses and opinions through a chat. The English version of the live stream can be found here: http://www.oneclimate.net/provocations, the Spanish version here http://www.oneclimate.net/provocations-es
Latin America Roundtable Report
A Knowledge Programme and a global learning network has been established by Hivos, Mainumby and IIED, to map, elicit and integrate knowledge on the dilemmas confronting small-scale producers in the context of globalising markets. A series of regional roundtable meetings were held in Latin America, Africa and Asia to: Present the concept of the knowledge programme and its associated learning network, which will drive knowledge generation; Have an open and frank discussion to validate the cont...