A year later, in 2013, the Westerkwartier Area Cooperative was established – a new form of cooperation at the regional level, involving hundreds of dairy farmers, other SMEs, Terra MBO as the representative of the knowledge institutions in the region, the National Forest Service in the Netherlands (‘Staatsbosbeheer’), …

Background: Access to affordable and effective health care is a challenge in low- and middle- income countries. Out-of-pocket expenditure for health care is a major cause of impoverishment. One way to facilitate access and overcome catastrophic expenditure is through a health insurance mechanism, whereby …

This paper concludes that the dynamic system of perception, knowledge and adaptation is valuable in better understanding how farmers perceive climate change and choose for specific adaptation strategies. The paper demonstrated how perceptions interact with local knowledge, what potential spaces farmers …

In this research different reforestation techniques are investigated in relation to its effectiveness in restoring the natural forest ecosystem. The location where the research is conducted is the Peruvian region Madre de Dios, which is on the Amazonian foothill of the Andes. There are great deforestation …

This study is aimed at assessing market linkages and strategies for smallholder farmers in Lume District, Ethiopia. The study primarily aimed at identifying appropriate market linkages and strategies that can be introduced by the Agricultural Extension Directorate (AED) to enable farmers to access higher …

This research project for linking passion fruit farmers to high price market gives an overview of the local passion fruit sub-sector performance, structure, relationship that describes how it operates in Mukono District, Uganda. The objective of the study was to analyse the passion fruit chain governance …

Annapurna dairy producer cooperative limited (ADPCL) is a small dairy cooperative located in Chitwan, Nepal. The cooperative is doing the function of collecting milk from its member farmers, processing the milk into dairy products and finally distributing the products to the market. The problem faced …

This study seeks to evaluate the extent to which the selected project is contributing to smallholder farmer empowerment. Vertical and horizontal integration are measured through a model proposed by KIT. Study of interest are subsistence farmers in Nakaseke, Uganda.

Streekbox is an organisation in delivering fresh food meal kits, which is still a developing organisation. The brand value of Streekbox is: “we connect people with local and healthy products”. Within the organisation, there was no focus on the Customer Journey. The organisation wants to map its Customer …

Wakati is a Belgian company that aims to eliminate food loss in developing countries with its primary product the Wakati One. The Wakati One is an innovative technology that increases the shelf life of fruits and vegetables for smallholder farmers in developing countries by creating a micro-climate that …