Market-chain innovation enhances smallholders’ access to markets: Insights from the sweet potato sub-sector in Uganda
Abstract
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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.
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