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来源类型 | Briefing papers |
规范类型 | 简报 |
Walking tightropes: Supporting farmer organisations for market access | |
Ephraim Chirwa; Andrew Dorward; Richard Kachule; Ian Kumwenda; Jonathan Kydd; Nigel Poole; Colin Poulton; Michael Stockbridge | |
发表日期 | 2005 |
出版年 | 2005 |
语种 | 英语 |
概述 | As NGOs, donors and governments encourage both scaling up and diversification of Farmer Organisations' activities and membership, this paper draws on research on FOs in Malawi to suggest principles for policy and practice in support to FOs. |
摘要 | Despite their mixed record in the past, Farmer Organisations (FOs) are being asked to play an increasing role in supporting commercial agricultural development among smallholder farmers in Sub Saharan Africa. As NGOs, donors and governments encourage both scaling up and diversifi cation of FOs’ activities and membership, this paper draws on research on FOs in Malawi to suggest principles for policy and practice in support to FOs. With limited resources and facing a very challenging environment, these FOs generally need external support for start-up, but getting the balance right between external and internal resources, between accountability and leadership, between flexible and effective structures, and between over- and under-ambition means that FOs and their supporters walk a difficult set of tightropes. External support needs to be skilled, sensitive, consistent and patient if FOs are not to be another development disappointment at the start of the 21st century. |
主题 | agriculture ; economic development ; food ; private sector ; markets ; food security ; forests |
URL | https://www.odi.org/publications/1236-walking-tightropes-supporting-farmer-organisations-market-access |
来源智库 | Overseas Development Institute (United Kingdom) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/506200 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Ephraim Chirwa,Andrew Dorward,Richard Kachule,et al. Walking tightropes: Supporting farmer organisations for market access. 2005. |
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