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| Agriculture the world over | 4
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| Featured: Mr Sabbaiah and Ms Hampamma are small-scale farmers, pictured here in their sunflower field in the village of Maratha, in the Raichur district of Karnataka, India. | |
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| Editorial: Entrepreneurship, the sustainable way | 5
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| ILEIA editorial team |
During the last few years the terms rural entrepreneurship, value chains and market participation have become buzz words in
agricultural development. Small-scale farmers and their support insti... | |
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| Theme overview - Enhancing farmers' entrepreneurship: Creating conditions for growth | 6-8
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| Arno J. Maatman, Ted Schrader |
| If an entrepreneur is a creative person, or someone who takes risks and innovates, then small-scale farmers are definitely entrepreneurs. Their role as such, however, faces many challenges, of which a... | |
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| Supportive policies secure a future for family farmers | 9-11
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| Sofia Naranjo |
Mirandiba, in north-eastern Brazil, provides few opportunities for family farmers to make a living. With long dry seasons, few
local jobs and poor access to markets, it is difficult to meet a f... | |
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| For these women, money does grow on (neem) trees | 12-13
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| P.A. Chaya |
| Once, the women of Muddana Guddi, a village in Raichur district, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, suffered from drought and poverty. With no alternatives except cursing their own troubles, t... | |
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| Celebrating our jubilee | 14-15
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| Global recognition for weaver ants | 15
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| Paul Van Mele |
Paul Van Mele has co-authored various articles in LEISA Magazine. When we asked him for reflections on these articles, he
immediately mentioned the first one he sent to us, about weaver ants in... | |
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| It works to work together | 16-17
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| Abraham Lemlem |
| With more than 3.5 million animals, Ethiopia has the largest cattle population in Africa. Milk production, however, is very low, and its per capita consumptionis lower than the African or the world’s ... | |
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| Inspired by... An old seed gives birth to a new one | 18-19
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| Awudu Ngutte |
| Awudu Ngutte works as a project co-ordinator for INAPA, a small organisation based in Buea, Cameroon. He has been receiving LEISA Magazine since 2004, sharing it with his colleagues and other organisa... | |
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| Adding value to local livelihoods | 20-21
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| Kheuavanh Pommathat, Mr. Stuart Ling |
| In Laos, farmers get better prices for their products and more control over value chains when they join together to form and invest in their own agro-enterprises. Since 2007, 18 agro-enterprises have... | |
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| Bees, trade - and success | 22-24
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| Verina Ingram |
| Honey production is frequently promoted as a pro-poor income generation activity as it is accessible to many members of a rural community, has low start-up costs and requires little land or labour. Bu... | |
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| Market Access Centres make the difference | 25
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| Benoît Thierry, Emeline Schneider |
The Analanjirofo region in eastern Madagascar offers a unique and extremely wide range of agricultural products. Local
production of cloves, lychees, vegetables, rice and honey represents a sou... | |
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| Enabling entrepreneurship - Conditions and constraints | 26-27
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| A wide variety of articles about entrepreneurship arrived in our inbox. They all showed that certain conditions have to be met before it is possible to engage successfully in any entrepreneurial activ... | |
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| Plenty of fruit, but also plenty of hurdles | 28-29
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| Anders Peter Pedersen |
| Many types of fruit grow in the Uluguru mountains in Tanzania. And the sunshine needed to dry them is plentiful and free. The combination of these facts could mean a good business for farmers. But it ... | |
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| Do value chains help farmers out of poverty? Two views | 30-31
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| Victor Attuquaye Clottey, Gertjan Becx |
| Many current global policies propose that farmers can get out of poverty by being (better) linked to markets. Many professionals think that improving conditions along the whole chain stimulates farmer... | |
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| Tasting the results of a joint effort | 32-33
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| Stephen Taranto, Stefano Padulosi |
| Bioversity International is running several projects aimed at creating marketing options for the crops grown in the Central Andes. These activities focus on strengthening the linkages between producer... | |
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| Rwanda's highland rice renaissance - update from the field | 34-35
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| One of the first volumes of what was then known as the ILEIA Newsletter described how farmers in Rwanda were working with new ideas and approaches to rice production, including some used by Asian farm... | |
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| Helping credit do its job | 36-37
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| Salibo Somé |
Providing financial services is one of the key elements that can help farmers put their ideas into practice. Various organisations
are involved in finance programmes, providing credit. Many of ... | |
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| Field note: Sipili is ready for business | 38
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| Josphat K. Wachira |
| Mr George Kamau has succeeded in setting up a small business in Sipili, a remote village in Kenya. Noting the need for farmers to buy and sell their produce locally, he opened a small premises where h... | |
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| New books | 39
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| Sources | 40-41
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| Networking | 42
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| UN: Agriculture is part of the solution - Sustainable agriculture in the news | 44
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