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This report analyses the value chain of the vanilla industry and highlights the challenges and proposed solutions to increase farmer incomes. These include the recommendations at the local, national, supply chain and consumer levels.

OECD and FAO have developed this Guidance to help enterprises observe standards of responsible business conduct and undertake due diligence along agricultural supply chains in order to ensure that their operations contribute to sustainable development. The Guidance comprises:

• A model enterprise policy outlining the standards that enterprises should observe to build responsible agricultural supply chains;
• A framework for risk-based due diligence describing the five steps that enterprises should follow to identify, assess, mitigate and account for how they address the adverse impacts of their activities;
• A description of the major risks faced by enterprises and the measures to mitigate these risks;
• Guidance for engaging with indigenous peoples.

This paper introduces the IB Scan, a method to reveal crucial insights on the inclusion of smallholders in agricultural value chains complementing conventional data collection methods. The IB Scan offers companies, producer organisations, NGOs, and service providers a fast and efficient monitoring tool to measure the inclusivity of a particular business model as it is perceived by smallholder farmers.

This report offers a first set of insights, distilled from the knowledge of leading practitioners, on how to successfully integrate smallholders into value chains through effective service delivery and smallholder aggregation models. It uses case studies from five African and Asian countries.

With funding from FAO, the Contract Farming Support Program (CFSP) of SNV tried to improve the smallholder farmers’ access to input and output markets as well as extension support through contract growing with private companies.
 

This study provides an evaluation of the impact of the Connected Farmer mobile agriculture (mAgri) solution and documentation of the lessons learned during its implementation. The Connected Farmer solution addresses the value chain management inefficiencies and increases productivity of both the agribusiness and the smallholder farmers who supply them.

This publication provides a conceptual and case-based exploration of scaling impact in relation to PPPs. It seeks to unpack the concept of scaling and create conceptual clarity by presenting an overview of the terms, frameworks, and models used in relation to scaling. It aims at understanding the specific role of PPPs in scaling and at supporting practitioners in getting to grips with different scaling approaches.

This report covers the basis principles of the inclusive market development approach, its role in poverty reduction, and its application in three sectors: fishers, vegetables and agricultural inputs such as seed and fertilizer.

This report lays out Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) guidance to help enterprises observe standards of responsible business conduct to ensure that their operations do not lead to adverse impacts and contribute to sustainable development. It covers agricultural upstream and downstream sectors from input supply to production, post-harvest handling, processing, transportation, marketing, distribution and retailing. Several areas of risk arising along agricultural supply chains are addressed: human rights, labour rights, health and safety, food security and nutrition, tenure rights over and access to natural resources, animal welfare, environmental protection and sustainable use of natural resources, governance, and technology and innovation.

This report discusses "system leadership" needed to tackle global challenges like food security, climate change, job creation, and gender parity. System leadership can help align the efforts of diverse stakeholders in order to accelerate this process, and ensure that it delivers more sustainable, inclusive business growth and human development.