Improving Market Access for Smallholders: Challenges and Opportunities
2017
Rola-Rubzen, Maria Fay | Hardaker, J. Brian
The advent of globalisation has brought many opportunities in trade, capital and labourflows and in exchange of information and technology. For agricultural producers,globalisation offers the possibility of expanded markets. But integration into the globaleconomy is fraught with challenges, particularly for farmers in developing countries.Not only are they faced with increasing competition from other farmers within theircountries, but also from producers around the world. The challenge is to find howfarmers in developing countries can access these markets to share in the benefits ofglobalisation. This paper discusses the challenges and threats faced by smallholderfarmers and outlines some strategies to improve market access by smallholders.
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