Increasing the competitiveness of market chains for smallholder producers, CIAT, 2004 (English/French/Spanish)

Description
CIAT has published a series of manuals, entitled Rural Agro-enterprise Development; they are designed to address the entrepreneurial development needs of institutions that support rural communities. The five documents published to date include the following topics:

- A strategy for Rural Agro-enterprise development
- Developing partnerships, territorial analysis and planning together
- Identifying market opportunities for smallholder producers
- Strategies to improve the competitiveness of market chains for smallholder producers
- Collective marketing for small-scale producers

Manual users are encouraged to interpret and adapt the contents of these manuals to local marketing conditions, available resources, local social dynamics, and the anticipated scale of implementation.



Associated Activities and Documents
Market Assessment
»	Value Chain Analysis, 2007