Business profiling and nutrition assessment of agrifood small and medium-sized enterprises and enterprise support organizations

dc.coverageEthiopia
dc.coverageHaiti
dc.coverageMalawi
dc.coverageMali
dc.coverageNiger
dc.coveragePapua New Guinea
dc.coverageSouth Sudan
dc.creatorFAO
dc.date2024-05-17T08:05:21Z
dc.date2024-05-17T08:05:21Z
dc.date2024
dc.date2024-05-17T08:02:09Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-28T01:46:47Z
dc.descriptionThis report presents the findings of an analysis of the business profiling information and capacity gaps of agrifood small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and enterprise support organizations (ESOs) across Ethiopia, Haiti, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Papua New Guinea and South Sudan. This activity was carried out as part of a project under the Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism (FMM), currently known as Flexible Voluntary Contribution (FVC).The data collected and the analysis provide valuable insights to policy makers and practitioners into the capacity and learning gaps to be addressed and of the challenges that SMEs and ESOs face in the targeted countries.  The results showed that most of these enterprises are micro-enterprises, almost half are managed by women, and they develop a diversified portfolio of activities including production, processing, and retailing mostly in grains value chains. Most agrifood SMEs mentioned the following as their primary business challenges: limited access tofinance, input costs and infrastructure development.
dc.format53 p.
dc.formatapplication/pdf
dc.identifierhttps://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/cd0244en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/345892
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherFAO ;
dc.rightsFAO
dc.rightsCC BY NC SA 3.0 IGO
dc.titleBusiness profiling and nutrition assessment of agrifood small and medium-sized enterprises and enterprise support organizations
dc.titleReport
dc.typeBooklet

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