An Overview of Sector Governance
Building high performing and resilient sectors requires looking beyond the value chain and improving the governance of a sector. The last two decades have seen an increasing emphasis on company…
Enabling Smallholder Farmers to Improve Their Incomes
The Sustainable Food Lab and Business Fights Poverty have been collaborating to advance learning on how to improve the economic benefits of trade with smallholder farmers. Growth in those farmers’…
Reaching Beyond the Value Chain
The last two decades have seen an increasing emphasis on company and supply chain driven approaches to promote sustainable production and trade of agricultural commodities. Large food and commodity traders,…
Sector Governance
We often focus on farm or value chain and landscape level initiatives. This presentation looked at the benefits of sector development and ways to measure health and progress over time…
Beyond the Value Chain: Sector Governance
Speakers: Bill Vorley, IIED; Willem Molenaar, Aidenvironment How do sector governance instruments influence sector wide capabilities that promote sector performance and influence producer performance? Value chain projects frequently result in islands…
Sector Transformation
Much of the work to improve the performance of commodity sectors with large numbers of smallholders like coffee, tea and cocoa has been anchored in specific supply chains with voluntary standards. Meanwhile,…
