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Improving Farmers' and Processors Livelihoods: Getting the Products to Market

Natural Resources Knowledge
A collection of summaries describing key outputs from projects run by DFID's recently completed 10-year Renewable Natural Resources Research Strategy (RNRRS) programmes.
Audience: Processors
Market Chains and Improved Market Access
Processing techniques, Improved Storage and Consumer Health
Improved Information and Tools
   
Market Chains and Improved Market Access:
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Research Outputs
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Simple steps can strengthen marketing capacity - Participatory approaches to decentralising market access, coordination and competition policies in developing market systems CPH09
Better organisation helps farmers to access markets - Improving smallholder farmer market access and profitability through increased productivity, quality, organised storage and participation CPH10
From plough to plate - collaboration delivers results - Exploring market opportunities through a research, industry and user coalition: Sorghum-poultry feed CPH05
Participation makes ethical trade work for the poor - Back to ethics: Enhancing African ethical trading bodies to export horticulture CPH16
Improved marketing methods ensure smallholder access - Transforming agricultural marketing and improving access to finance through warehouse receipt systems CPH18
A new system helps smallholders keep pace with world markets - Agriculture to agri-business: Management systems for high value horticulture CPH20
Fair trade for forest products - Ethical Trade and Forest Livelihoods (ETFL) - helping producers and harvesters to access ethical markets in forest products FRP19
A market chain approach gives fast results - Participatory Market Chain Analysis (PMCA) CPH01
Private sector serves horticultural industry in Kenya - Development of private sector service providers for the horticultural industry in Kenya CPP64
Opening the doors to markets and credit for poor fishers - A guide to the analysis of fish marketing systems using a combination of sub-sector analysis and the sustainable livelihoods approach PHF04
Changing global seafood trade standards harm poor fishers - Globalisation and seafood trade legislation: The effect of poverty in India PHF14
New formulas for success are helping farmers to make vital choices - Gross margin analysis and marketing fact sheets for farmer groups and extension staff CPH33
Better rice for higher incomes - Enhancing rural livelihoods through improving post harvest handling and rice quality in Ghana CPH03

Processing techniques, Improved Storage and Consumer Health:
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Oiling the wheels of coconut processing - Improving small-scale extraction of coconut oil: CPH32
What is new under the sun - Partnerships for poor fruit and vegetable farmers - Commercialisation of solar drying technologies for micro and small-scale rural enterprise development CPH31
Fossils bring insect control down to earth - Diatomaceous Earths: Providing safer options for smallholder grain production CPH35
Innovation reduces inputs and drudgery for shea butter processors - Improved processing of shea nuts CPH36
Simple transport solutions cut drudgery and improve livelihoods - Building partnerships for sustainable rural transport development CPH27
Starch production techniques help cassava processors protect their profits - Small scale starch extraction and storage to improve process efficiency CPH39
Sweet potato boosts health and incomes - Maximising the potential of fresh sweetpotato for farmer and trader income CPH40
Fermentation helps meet growing urban demand for cassava products - Commercialisation of traditional processed cassava production to maximise benefits and sustain rural livelihoods CPH41
New sweet potato technologies make more the merrier - Sweet potato technologies for food markets and renewable energy CPH44
Storage techniques boost food security over the long haul - Preserving grain quality in long-term storage CPH24
New designs for storage structures give farmers important options - Better grain stores for farmers and traders CPH23
You name it, cassava can do it - Cassava as a commerical industrial commodity CPH21
Protecting consumer health in cities - Mobilising policy systems and stakeholder networks to improve food safety for the urban and peri-urban poor CPH06
Tackling fish losses along the marketing chain - Fishloss Assessment and reduction - field based methodology PHF08
Understanding the blowfly life cycle helps promote hygienic fish processing - Guidelines on using a systems based approach to control blowfly infestation of traditionally processed fish PHF11
Saving fish from flies and beetles - A review of insect infestation of traditionally cured fish in the Tropics PHF12
Weighing up costs and benefits in fish factories - Cleanse it, Ice it and Log it PHF13
Millers bank on bambara processing techniques - Bambara processing technologies for enhanced rural livelihoods CPH04

Improved Information and Tools:
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Know-how boosts cottage industries in tropical fruit - Promoting selected tropical fruit trees through dissemination of information and improved livelihoods through the development of small-scale fruit processing enterprises in Africa FRP44
New information takes farmers - Together to Market - Market information tools: Combining radio and training to facilitate successful farmer group marketing CPH26
From mangos to markets - market information tools CPH37
Partnership-based innovation helps break bad habits - Principle for enabling partnership-based innovation CPH12
Community enterprise does not have to be a burden - Managing food - COProM Management model for viable markets CPH22