The agro-enterprise appproach increases incomes for Tanzanian smallholder farmers

To reduce poverty and increase food security for smallholder paddy farmers in Tanzania, the national government started the Marketing, Infrastructure, Value Addition and Rural Finance programme. The programme uses the Public, Private Producer Partnership approach to bring together different actors t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mbele, Savior
Format: Case Study
Language:Inglés
Published: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation 2018
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/96942
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Summary:To reduce poverty and increase food security for smallholder paddy farmers in Tanzania, the national government started the Marketing, Infrastructure, Value Addition and Rural Finance programme. The programme uses the Public, Private Producer Partnership approach to bring together different actors to reduce transaction costs along the value chain, and puts paddy farmers in direct contact with potential buyers.