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This case is one of a series specifically prepared by SNV and local partners for the “Seas of Change” event, taking place in The Hague, 11-13 April 2012. The Enhancing Milled Rice Production in Lao PDR (EMRIP) Project has been able to develop fair trading relations between 21,361 small holder rice producers and 21 selected rice mills within 23 months of the project’s duration. 

This report discusses the importance of small businesses in poverty reduction, income equality and competitiveness, and the approach of Swiss Contact in small and medium sized enterprises (SME) promotion.

This report discusses functions and characteristics of multi-stakeholder initiatives, collaborations between a company and other firms, governments, civil society organisations, local communities and/or smallholders to achieve more inclusive business frameworks along the whole of their value chain. It analyses the role of stakeholders, governance models and approaches to evaluate their effectiveness, while providing five successful examples.

This report briefly explains the approach of shared value, including factors and principles which are necessary for the successful inclusion of poor people into a company's value chain. Various business cases from different sectors and countries are presented and the diverse process steps from value chain analysis to project formulation, project implementation, impact measurement and scaling are examined.

This case study examines CB Farm Fresh, a cold storage, processing and distribution business for fresh vegetables serving the extractives industry in Tete, Mozambique. It aims to understand how smallholder-inclusive business models can be successfully implemented by assessing CB Farm Fresh’s end-to-end model, and it highlights interventions of the CB model that ensure successful integration of smallholder farmers.

This report summarises the lessons learned from the Data Impacts project, which explores success stories of the ongoing Data Revolution. The case studies chosen span the themes of health, agriculture and environment, cities, and humanitarian crises, and are drawn from countries all over the world. The cases examine the long and complex pathway from data to impact, focusing on the stages of data generation and collection, methodological development, data analysis, use in the policy process, and project implementation.

This report looks at how inclusive business models provide agribusinesses with ways of working that create shared value with economies of scale for agribusinesses and thus lower risks and costs. It shares lessons of ‘learning by doing’ by agribusiness companies working with smallholder farmers across sub-Saharan Africa.

This comprehensive report focuses on methods to increase smallholder farmers’ productivity as a way to improve their incomes and livelihoods by creating more value, operating more cost efficiently and capturing and sharing value. It is based on 15 global organisations and summarises 13 insights.

This report is based on four case studies of agricultural value chain PPPPs developed through projects financed by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in Ghana, Indonesia, Rwanda and Uganda. It reviews existing literature on PPPPs, summaries of the key features of the case studies and field work, learnings drawn from the research and a PPPP checklist which outlines the role for brokers in the process.

This report explores how mobile solutions are helping to improve agricultural productivity, efficiency and rural livelihoods in emerging markets, with a focus on six services: agricultural information services, receipt services, payments and loans, field audit, local supply chain, and smartphone-enabled services.