Markets & Trade

Rural markets play a key role in generating rural income, especially for small farmers. But these markets are often insufficiently developed and/or small farmers cannot access them. What are the reasons behind this, how can markets be better designed to fulfil their key functions and allow effective participation by small farmers despite global change?

Articles

• Free trade talks between the European Union and India
• Chocolate made in Africa – the start of a small revolution?
• Processing tomatoes in Tanzania: a tale of seeds and ketchup
• Making markets work for the poor
• Revival for Zimbabwe’s meat market
• Why markets matter
• New marketing structures: new chances, new risks
• A boost for inclusive farmer-trader relationships
• Better grain marketing with warehouse receipt systems
• Advocacy for free trade
• Where is food logistics going?
• BioTrade – development opportunities for small farmers in Peru
• Irrigation and markets – a fertile combination for poverty reduction

Trade

Trade can make an important contribution to sustainable economic development and poverty reduction provided that it can be made fair and inclusive. This is also reflected in the Sustainable Development Goals, but it is also borne testimony to in the latest changes in development co-operation policy, which is increasingly focusing on trade and markets.

Articles

• Why trade matters
• Agriculture trade and sustainability concerns
• Reconciling trade policies with food security objectives
• European chicken drumsticks for West Africa – a threat to local markets?
• The little people always suffer
• The cost of high food prices in West Africa
• Closing the standards gap
• The EIF – bridging trade, development and the world’s poorest countries
• Horticultural exports – a threat or a boost to food security?
• Do smallholder farmers benefit from sustainability standards?
• Big business, small farms and “no deforestation” commitments
• The private sector as a driver for sustainable rural development
• “We give farmers planning certainty”
• Trade and development
• Revitalise the Aid for Trade initiative
• Supporting women and informal networks
• Fostering intra-regional agricultural trade in Africa
• Boosting trade with better border infrastructure
• Agricultural value chains
• The four Ps – a market-led development for smallholders
• Strengthening local rice markets The case of smallholder producers in the Philippines
• Making markets work for the poor – an example from Bangladesh
• Small farmers, big retailers - How to link smallholders to supermarkets
• Let’s move towards the Africa we want