Multistakeholder platforms for linking small farmers to value chains: Evidence from the Andes

Thiele, Graham; Devaux, A.; Reinoso, Iván; Pico, Hérnan; Montesdeoca, Fabián; Pumisacho, Manuel; Andrade-Piedra, Jorge; Velasco, Claudio; Flores, Paola; Esprella, Raúl; Thomann, Alice; Manrique, Kurt; Horton, Douglas

Multistakeholder platforms for linking small farmers to value chains: Evidence from the Andes

Autores

Andrade-Piedra, Jorge

Velasco, Claudio

Flores, Paola

Esprella, Raúl

Editor

International Food Policy Research Institute

Descripción

Analyses of work in the Andes (Chapter 8; Cavatassi et al. 2011) indicate that platforms that bring stakeholders together around value chains can result in new products, processes, norms, and behaviors that benefit poor farmers in ways that would not have been achieved otherwise.

Palabras clave

value chains, retail marketing, transport, farmers organizations, smallholders, market access, trade, wholesale marketing, producer organizations, food processing