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SIDS solutions innovations profile. E-commerce/supply chains: Smallholders adapting (Cook Islands)

SIDS Solutions Forum, 30-31 August 2021

Year of publication 2021

Place of publication Bangkok, Thailand ;

Pages 2p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Category Other document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) As part of the SIDS Solutions Forum, 30-31 August 2021, FAO collected innovations and creative digital technologies that respond to local problems and challenges. This flyer presents the successful innovation in response to the movement restrictions imposed in response to COVID-19, which have considerably restricted sales and purchase of vegetables and merchandise at the marketplace. A farmer decided to offer a new service to buyers by selling a basket of different types of food at a fixed price and delivering them direct to households.

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