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How can the poor benefit from the growing markets for high value agricultural products?

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This paper aims to identify critical areas for trade, marketing, capital market development and regulatory reforms that can facilitate the integration of small-scale farmers (small-scale farmers) in domestic, regional and global markets for high-value agricultural (HVA) products in particular high value crops, livestock, fish and non timber forest products in a sustainable manner and to increase and diversify the incomes of small-scale farmers in the long-run. The paper places particular emphasis on the issues that may need to be addressed through research and development undertaken by the international, regional and national research communities.

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  • Davis, Junior, 2006. "How can the poor benefit from the growing markets for high value agricultural products?," MPRA Paper 26048, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    3. Rusali, Mirela Adriana, 2012. "High Value Agri-Food Products In Romania’S Trade Pattern," Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Institute of Agricultural Economics, vol. 9(2), pages 245-254.
    4. Omiti, John M. & Otieno, David Jakinda & McCullough, Ellen B. & Nyanamba, Timothy O., 2008. "Strategies to Promote Market-Oriented Smallholder Agriculture in Developing Countries: A Case of Kenya," 2007 Second International Conference, August 20-22, 2007, Accra, Ghana 52105, African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE).
    5. Stuart S. Yeh, 2012. "A High‐Value Agriculture‐Based Strategy for Reducing Poverty in Sub‐Saharan Africa," Poverty & Public Policy, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 4(2), pages 1-27, June.
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    9. Davis, Junior, 2007. "Agriculture and rural development challenges in South-Eastern Europe and Turkey with the view to European Union integration process," MPRA Paper 25986, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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    Keywords

    high-value agricultural commodities; agri-food marketing; agricultural research and development;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q13 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Markets and Marketing; Cooperatives; Agribusiness
    • Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy; Animal Welfare Policy

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