Enhancing Links of Poor Farmers to Markets : A Practice Review for Economic Inclusion in Zambia
This report reviews the experiences of market linkage programs implemented globally, particularly those focused on poor smallholders, including women, as beneficiaries and farmers who participated in government social safety net schemes. The report...
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okr-10986-380352022-09-19T17:14:58Z Enhancing Links of Poor Farmers to Markets : A Practice Review for Economic Inclusion in Zambia Sparkman, Tim Sackett, Jill Avalos, Jorge Varghese Paul, Boban POVERTY REDUCTION RURAL AREAS AGRIBUSINESS GIRLS' EDUCATION WOMENS' EMPOWERMENT WOMEN'S LIVELIHOODS PRIVATE SECTOR PARTNERSHIPS This report reviews the experiences of market linkage programs implemented globally, particularly those focused on poor smallholders, including women, as beneficiaries and farmers who participated in government social safety net schemes. The report highlights lessons learned by program implementers, governments, and other stakeholders related to efforts to link extremely poor households to productive markets. The research was commissioned to inform potential links between two World Bank projects that are currently supporting the economic inclusion of poor households in Zambia. The supporting women’s livelihood (SWL) program of the Girls’ Education and Women’s Empowerment and Livelihoods (GEWEL) Project provides a comprehensive package to promote economic inclusion among women from the poorest households. A second project, the Zambia Agribusiness and Trade Project (ZATP), enhances access to markets by linking producer organizations and high-growth small and medium-size enterprises to buyers (commercial off-takers) by facilitating productive alliances (commercial agreements between a producer organization and a commercial off-taker) and providing matching grants and technical support. A diagnostic of the status of and constraints facing SWL beneficiaries with respect to market linkages highlights the lack of upstream value chain linkages for them. The World Bank will provide technical assistance to the government of Zambia, through relevant ministries, to operationalize a mechanism, at scale, for forging market linkages by SWL households by linking them to ZATP beneficiaries. This report reviews and highlights the experiences of similar market linkages programs implemented globally, in an attempt to answer key questions raised by the program. This report describes operational considerations that may be relevant to the ZATP-GEWEL project context. It provides recommendations to guide the next steps in developing the ZATP-GEWEL pilot. 2022-09-19T17:14:57Z 2022-09-19T17:14:57Z 2022-09-16 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099518509192217824/IDU093c87f300a4a7045930a0080c7234acbed99 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/38035 English en_US PEI In Practice;Vol.5 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: PEI in Practice Africa Eastern and Southern (AFE) Africa Zambia |
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This report reviews the experiences
of market linkage programs implemented globally,
particularly those focused on poor smallholders, including
women, as beneficiaries and farmers who participated in
government social safety net schemes. The report highlights
lessons learned by program implementers, governments, and
other stakeholders related to efforts to link extremely poor
households to productive markets. The research was
commissioned to inform potential links between two World
Bank projects that are currently supporting the economic
inclusion of poor households in Zambia. The supporting
women’s livelihood (SWL) program of the Girls’ Education and
Women’s Empowerment and Livelihoods (GEWEL) Project provides
a comprehensive package to promote economic inclusion among
women from the poorest households. A second project, the
Zambia Agribusiness and Trade Project (ZATP), enhances
access to markets by linking producer organizations and
high-growth small and medium-size enterprises to buyers
(commercial off-takers) by facilitating productive alliances
(commercial agreements between a producer organization and a
commercial off-taker) and providing matching grants and
technical support. A diagnostic of the status of and
constraints facing SWL beneficiaries with respect to market
linkages highlights the lack of upstream value chain
linkages for them. The World Bank will provide technical
assistance to the government of Zambia, through relevant
ministries, to operationalize a mechanism, at scale, for
forging market linkages by SWL households by linking them to
ZATP beneficiaries. This report reviews and highlights the
experiences of similar market linkages programs implemented
globally, in an attempt to answer key questions raised by
the program. This report describes operational
considerations that may be relevant to the ZATP-GEWEL
project context. It provides recommendations to guide the
next steps in developing the ZATP-GEWEL pilot. |
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Sparkman, Tim Sackett, Jill Avalos, Jorge Varghese Paul, Boban |
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Sparkman, Tim Sackett, Jill Avalos, Jorge Varghese Paul, Boban |
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Sparkman, Tim |
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Enhancing Links of Poor Farmers to Markets : A Practice Review for Economic Inclusion in Zambia |
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Enhancing Links of Poor Farmers to Markets : A Practice Review for Economic Inclusion in Zambia |
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Enhancing Links of Poor Farmers to Markets : A Practice Review for Economic Inclusion in Zambia |
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Enhancing Links of Poor Farmers to Markets : A Practice Review for Economic Inclusion in Zambia |
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Enhancing Links of Poor Farmers to Markets : A Practice Review for Economic Inclusion in Zambia |
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enhancing links of poor farmers to markets : a practice review for economic inclusion in zambia |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2022 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099518509192217824/IDU093c87f300a4a7045930a0080c7234acbed99 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/38035 |
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