Linking smallholders to the new agricultural economy: Evaluation of the Plataformas program in Ecuador. Impact brief. March 2010
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The results show that the Plataformas successfully increased the welfare of the participating farmers and suggest that they are an eff ective way of linking smallholder potato producers to the market. The success of the Plataformas can be explained fi rstly by their intervention along the whole value chain and the removing of unnecessary transaction costs; secondly by the introduction of technological innovations to increase yields; and thirdly by an improvement in social capital that is express ed, among other things, as greater trust among the actors in the production chain, and which enables small-scale producers to overcome the obstacles to entering more demanding markets. The full version of this study is available at <a href="http://www.fao.org/3/a-ak231e.pdf">http://www.fao.org/3/a-ak231e.pdf</a>