"The 2010 RUFORUM Biennial Conference was the second in the series. The main objective of the Biennial conferences is to provide a platform for agricultural research for development stakeholders in Africa and beyond to actively exchange findings and experiences, while at the same time learning lessons towards improving performance of the agricultural sector and ultimately people’s livelihoods. The biennial conference is RUFORUM’s most comprehensive meeting for the diversity of stakeholers in agriculture. It is especially dedicated to graduate students and their supervisors, grantees in RUFORUM member universities and alumni. It is a platform for peer review, quality control, mentorship, networking and shared learning. This record contains an extended abstract accepted under the theme socio-economics".
Market-chain innovation enhances smallholders’ access to markets: Insights from the sweet potato sub-sector in Uganda
Abstract:
Smallholder farmers in developing countries such as Uganda
are faced with the difficulty of accessing sustainable markets.
Such farmers include those growing sweet potato, and are
becoming increasingly marginalized as urban markets demand
better quality, quantity and sustainable supply of agricultural
commodities. Research and Development (R&D) actors on
the other hand are often challenged on how to position farmers
to benefit from existing market opportunities. Pilot application
of the Participatory Market Chain Approach (PMCA) on the
Sweet potato sector demonstrated the resultant benefits to
farmers in engaging with other market chain actors to develop
innovations to exploit existing market opportunities.
Les petits agriculteurs des pays en développement comme
l’Ouganda sont confrontés à la difficulté d’accéder à des
marchés durables. Les agriculteurs concernés sont ceux de
pommes de terre de plus en plus doux, et sont de plus en plus
marginalisés par la demande des marchés urbains de meilleure
qualité, la quantité et la fourniture durable de produits agricoles.
Les acteurs de la Recherche et du Développement (R & D)
d’une part, sont souvent contestés sur la façon de positionner
les agriculteurs à bénéficier des opportunités de marché
existantes. L’Application Pilote de l’Approche Participative à
la Chaîne du Marché (PMCA) sur le secteur de la patate douce
a démontré les avantages qui en résultent pour que les
agriculteurs s’engagent avec d’autres acteurs de la chaîne du
marché pour développer des innovations des opportunités
d’exploitation existant.
Language:
English
Date of publication:
2010
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East Africa
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RUFORUM Conferences and Workshops
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Open Access
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Printed resource
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1713-1718
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