Leaping and Learning: Linking Smallholders to Markets is a comprehensive review of the existing literature on smallholder-centred market-based interventions.
Smallholder farms in sub-Saharan Africa number around 33 million, represent 80% of all farms in the region, and contribute up to 90% of food production in some sub-Saharan African countries. Developing smallholder agriculture can be effective in reducing poverty and hunger in low income countries, but only through sustainable access to markets can poor farmers increase the income from their labour and lift themselves and their families out of poverty.
Most poor farmers are not linked to markets for a variety of reasons: remoteness, low production, low farm-gate prices, and lack of information, to name a few. Addressing and overcoming these market failures in order to increase smallholder farmers’ access to markets was the subject of this research project.
Read the report (120 p. ) : http://www.future-agricultures.org/publications/research-and-analysis/research-papers/doc_download/1788-leaping-and-learning-linking-smallholders-to-markets
