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No Thumbnail AvailableBook (stand-alone)Small-scale forest-based processing enterprises 1987
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No results found.Small-scale forest-based processing enterprises comprise an important, but neglected, part of the forestry and forest industries sector. They process a large part of the raw materials from the forest and supply some of the main markets for forest products, in particular in the rural areas of developing countries. Our concern in the work reported on in this publication has been to determine the main features, prospects and problems of such small-scale enterprises and what support could enhance their developmental contribution, and therefore the developmental impact of the forest sector. Many small enterprises are currently unstable, and offer little security or prospect of self-reliance for those engaged in them. These problems need to be tackled by promoting viable enterprises run by rural people through effective participatory organizations which can increase peoples' control over their own economic destiny. External supp ort to increase production and efficiency needs to be compatible with those valuable elements of local culture which still have a role to play in the modern context. -
DocumentRisk Mitigation and Management for Agricultural Investment : Investment and Resource Mobilization
Applied Material. EASYPol Module 155
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No results found.The incidence of risk in agriculture is important to policy makers at national and international levels. Fluctuations in producer incomes, and particularly the threat of catastrophic loss, may present difficult welfare problems for these same producers, their governments, and the international community. Trading losses at the level of market intermediaries, such as traders and processors, negatively impact the development of sustainable trading and finance activities in the commodity sectors. In more extreme cases, international humanitarian assistance may be necessary, but that assistance may destabilize markets, create dependencies, or bias management via expectations of future disaster relief. -
DocumentInvestment and Resource Mobilisation: Sources and Uses of Financial Resources
Thematic Overview. EASYPol Module 145
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No results found.This document offers a syllabus for one component learning module in the FAO sponsored knowledge sharing series which deals with investment and resource mobilization in the rural economic space. This document outlines basic concepts and provides a framework for thinking about the sources and uses of financial resources which rural economies require for growth. This module both reviews recent developments in this topical area and suggests some new approaches to securing additional sources for fu nding rural investment. The module relies heavily on recent seminal studies which treat the topics briefly covered here in exhaustive detail1. Additional reference documents are listed in the annex.
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