Working with smallholders

Working with Smallholders seeks to enable the development of more sustainable, resilient and productive supply chains for agribusinesses and to illustrate the substantial development impact. Smallholder farmers are both an opportunity and a challenge for food and agribusiness companies. The predominance of smallholders in many frontier and emerging markets makes them an integral part of agribusiness supply chains. Many firms source from smallholders or are actively seeking to source from them.

Calls for fairer, more inclusive supply chains will hasten this trend. Yet the development and strengthening of smallholder supply chains remains a key challenge for many International Finance Corporation agribusiness clients. Working with Smallholders compiles innovative solutions and cutting-edge ideas for these challenges. The handbook incorporates a diverse collection of hands-on case studies from across the world regions covering a wide variety of agribusiness sectors. It strikes a good balance between serious technical content and an accessible presentation style.

In the three years since the previous edition, there have been numerous changes in approaches and methodologies. This second edition offers a larger compilation of lessons learned from project implementation and highlights leading trends and technologies relevant to the work with smallholders.