Linking smallholder production with value-added food markets
Demographic pressures and climate change in Africa are rendering subsistence farming an unviable livelihood strategy for smallholder farmers. However, urbanization and economic growth are creating new markets for fresh and processed foods in the region. To enter this market, African smallholders nee...
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| author | Begashaw, Belay Verburg, Gert-Jan Yamauchi, Futoshi Fettibene, Daniele Fujita, Yasuo |
| author_browse | Begashaw, Belay Fettibene, Daniele Fujita, Yasuo Verburg, Gert-Jan Yamauchi, Futoshi |
| author_facet | Begashaw, Belay Verburg, Gert-Jan Yamauchi, Futoshi Fettibene, Daniele Fujita, Yasuo |
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| description | Demographic pressures and climate change in Africa are rendering subsistence farming an unviable livelihood strategy for smallholder farmers. However, urbanization and economic growth are creating new markets for fresh and processed foods in the region. To enter this market, African smallholders need to adopt new production strategies that will increase income and make farming more appealing to the next generation. The G20 can encourage this transition by supporting the growth of a rural-based food processing sector, the reorientation of smallholder agriculture to commercialization, and the development of infrastructure to link farmers to markets. |
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| language | Inglés |
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| spelling | CGSpace1473612025-02-24T06:46:41Z Linking smallholder production with value-added food markets Begashaw, Belay Verburg, Gert-Jan Yamauchi, Futoshi Fettibene, Daniele Fujita, Yasuo agricultural production subsistence farming value added agriculture smallholders markets food processing climate change Demographic pressures and climate change in Africa are rendering subsistence farming an unviable livelihood strategy for smallholder farmers. However, urbanization and economic growth are creating new markets for fresh and processed foods in the region. To enter this market, African smallholders need to adopt new production strategies that will increase income and make farming more appealing to the next generation. The G20 can encourage this transition by supporting the growth of a rural-based food processing sector, the reorientation of smallholder agriculture to commercialization, and the development of infrastructure to link farmers to markets. 2019-12-09 2024-06-21T09:13:36Z 2024-06-21T09:13:36Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147361 en https://t20japan.org/policy-brief-sustainable-prevention-food-crises-sub-saharan/ Open Access T20 Begashaw, Belay; Verburg, Gert-Jan; Yamauchi, Futoshi; Fettibene, Daniele; and Yasuo, Fujita. 2019. Linking smallholder production with value-added food markets. Cooperation with Africa 4. Japan: T20. https://t20japan.org/policy-brief-linking-small-holder-production-food-markets/ |
| spellingShingle | agricultural production subsistence farming value added agriculture smallholders markets food processing climate change Begashaw, Belay Verburg, Gert-Jan Yamauchi, Futoshi Fettibene, Daniele Fujita, Yasuo Linking smallholder production with value-added food markets |
| title | Linking smallholder production with value-added food markets |
| title_full | Linking smallholder production with value-added food markets |
| title_fullStr | Linking smallholder production with value-added food markets |
| title_full_unstemmed | Linking smallholder production with value-added food markets |
| title_short | Linking smallholder production with value-added food markets |
| title_sort | linking smallholder production with value added food markets |
| topic | agricultural production subsistence farming value added agriculture smallholders markets food processing climate change |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147361 |
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