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Enhancing the Market Access of Smallholder Farmers

Year of publication 2018

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 2

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) "Enhancing the Market Access of Smallholder Farmers" Project aims at sustainably improving the capacities and self-reliance of small- and medium-scale farmers to produce high-value and export crops in the West Bank and Gaza Strip (WBGS). This will give their products the capacity to compete in national and international markets, through developing efficient and sustainable commercial processing and marketing systems.

Language English

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