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Smallholder Agriculture and Market Participation

Author: Nigel Poole (Reader in Development Policy, SOAS, University of London)
Publisher: Practical Action
Publication Date: December 31, 2017

Smallholder farmers in the global South play a crucial role in maintaining biodiversity, as well as contributing to food security in their countries. They need to be connected to markets to see sustained rises to their incomes and food availability. Smallholder Agriculture and Market Participation discusses the evolution of policies for smallholder development, including the role of value chains. Poor farmers face steep barriers to participation in different types of markets, including the lack of financing, and the unwillingness of commercial finance organizations to lend to remote, dispersed, small-scale farming households. This book should be read by researchers and students of agriculture, agriculture economics and international.

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Aid for Trade at a Glance 2015: Reducing Trade Costs for Inclusive, Sustainable Growth

Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD
Publication Date: December 26, 2017

The new development paradigm under the post-2015 Development Agenda requires an integrated approach to ensure that the aid for trade achievement leads to inclusive and sustainable development outcomes. Embedding trade cost at the center of the Aid for Trade Initiative provides an operational focal point for such action among a broad collation of stake holders.
The 2015 joint OECD/WTO publication Aid for Trade at a Glance focuses on how reducing trade costs will help in achieving inclusive and sustainable economic growth. The publication contains contributions from the Enhanced Integrated Framework, the International Trade Centre, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, and the World Bank.

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Rural Wealth Creation as a Sustainable Economic Development Strategy (Community Development – Current Issues Series) 1st Edition

Author: Shanna Ratner,‎Deborah Markley
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: December 23, 2017

Previous approaches to community and economic development have been inadequate in attempting to reverse these trends. Shifting to a new way of enabling economic development requires supporting innovative community leaders as they explore new ways of approaching the task at hand. It also requires thinking anew about the role of rural areas, based on valuing multiple forms of wealth – natural, social, and human. There is a real need for an approach that can help stem the potential loss of existing wealth, and attract new investment that will allow rural areas to become valued partners in regional economies.

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