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Value-addition and SME’s: raison d’etre and lessons learnt

Year of publication 2014

Pages 3p.

Author Ward, A.

Publisher FAO/IOC ;

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This fiche describes work undertaken by the SmartFish Programme to support SME’s in achieving value-addition (including by reducing losses). Particularly, SME’s which rely on small-pelagic resources which are gaining a growing interest from the burgeoning middle class urban African consumer. The fiche also summarises a number of key lessons that could be used to inform similar work in the future, in comparable contexts.

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