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Small farmer entrepreneurship

GFRA has long pioneered actions linking innovation and smallholder farmers to markets. This has included support to a wide range of actions, including the EC-funded Empowering Smallholder Farmers in Markets programme.   Through a new collective programme termed Supporting African Women in Agriculture (SAWA). GFAR is mobilizing private sector enterprise networks, known and anticipated innovation platforms, venture funds and enterprise training partners, together with a wide range of enabling networks in education, research, youth, ... more

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Promoting Women’s Enterprise Development in Egypt

Promoting Women’s Enterprise Development in Egypt

From Thomas Price, Senior Officer, Agricultural Innovation and Society, and Iman El-Kaffass,...

Beyond the Chocolate Bar: How Mars is Helping Smallholder Farmers

Farming First TV spoke to John Cordaro, Global Business Advisor at Mars, to find out what the...
Introducing a new initiative from Belgium: "TupperTerre”

Introducing a new initiative from Belgium: "TupperTerre”

Over the last decade an average of 43 family farms are disappearing each week in Belgium....
Call for papers ETFRN News 57: Effective forest and farm producer organisations

Call for papers: Effective forest and farm producer organisations

The forthcoming ETFRN News will interest all those engaged in managing or supporting forest and...
World Food Day: Innovation Must Support Family Farmers

World Food Day: Innovation Must Support Family Farmers

The Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) welcomes a new UN Food and Agriculture...
For Smallholder Farmers, Tenure Makes a Crucial Difference in Livelihoods

For Smallholder Farmers, Tenure Makes a Crucial Difference in Livelihoods

Written by: David Palmer (UNFAO) and Andrew Hilton (UNFAO) Millions of smallholders...

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Agriculture for Impact: The Entrepreneurship eNews

The E-magazine of the World’s Farmers - May, 2013

Empowering Smallholder Farmers in Markets

Empowering Smallholder Farmers in Markets: In most developing countries, smallholder farming is...

e-GFAR - Welcome to e-GFAR, the website of GFAR

The website of the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR)