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...

Making markets work for small-scale farmers?

The first of a series of ‘provocative seminars’ on smallholders and the ‘pro-poor markets’ agenda (view background [pdf 717kb]) [2] took place in The Hague, the Netherlands, on 28th September 2010. Local and international participants gathered to discuss a series of questions put forward by ‘provocateurs’ from Africa, Asia and Latin America. The three-hour long debate proved exciting as a string of Hivos’ partners and guest speakers challenged conventional beliefs and brought fresh insights a...

The Third Global Learning Network Meeting

02/03/2012 Reshaping the debate on small-scale farmers looking into the future; news from Indonesia, a country of millions of very small-scale producers.The Global Learning Network of Hivos – IIED knowledge programme on ‘Small producers’ agency in globalised markets’ held his third and last meeting in Bandung between 13-17 February. It was hosted and organized by Dr. Ronnie S. Natawidjaja, Chairman, Master of Agricultural Economics Program Faculty of Agriculture Padjadjaran University (UNPAD). 16 learni...