Small and medium enterprises and nutrition - making the business case

FAO

Small and medium enterprises and nutrition - making the business case

E-learning fact sheet

Year of publication 2021

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 2p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

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Synopsis (short abstract) This fact sheet describes the first of a series of two e-learning courses on small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and nutrition. In this course, you will discover the business case for leveraging SMEs - and particularly those engaged in the post-production stages of the value chain - to make food systems more nutrition-sensitive.

Last updated 08/06/2022

Language English

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