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Book (stand-alone)FAO Roundtable on the Competitiveness of Pacific Island Small and Medium Agro-processing Enterprises, 11-13 April 2012, Nadi, Fiji Islands
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2012Also available in:
No results found.Twenty four representatives of small and medium sized agro-processing enterprises from six nations were sponsored by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to attend a roundtable meeting on the competitiveness of these enterprises in the Pacific Islands. The roundtable was designed in such a way as to allow participants to make equitable representations. -
BookletBusiness profiling and nutrition assessment of agrifood small and medium-sized enterprises and enterprise support organizations
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2024Also available in:
No results found.This report presents the findings of an analysis of the business profiling information and capacity gaps of agrifood small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and enterprise support organizations (ESOs) across Ethiopia, Haiti, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Papua New Guinea and South Sudan. This activity was carried out as part of a project under the Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism (FMM), currently known as Flexible Voluntary Contribution (FVC).The data collected and the analysis provide valuable insights to policy makers and practitioners into the capacity and learning gaps to be addressed and of the challenges that SMEs and ESOs face in the targeted countries. The results showed that most of these enterprises are micro-enterprises, almost half are managed by women, and they develop a diversified portfolio of activities including production, processing, and retailing mostly in grains value chains. Most agrifood SMEs mentioned the following as their primary business challenges: limited access tofinance, input costs and infrastructure development. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetBoosting the capacities of small-scale producers and small and medium-sized enterprises for the nutrition of the most vulnerable 2023
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No results found.FAO’s vision for nutrition is a world where all people are eating healthy diets from efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems. Multiple actors need to be mobilized to enable this transformation, and small-scale producers and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are particularly important, as they form the backbone of food systems in most countries. However, they face critical finance, policy and capacity development challenges in making their businesses more nutrition-sensitive. FAO is working towards leveraging the potential of local small-scale producers and SMEs as a key to reducing hunger and malnutrition, and improving livelihoods among the poorest and most vulnerable. The project, “Protecting the diets of the most vulnerable people as part of COVID-19 response and recovery programme”. The project aims to strengthen the matching between the supply and demand of safe, nutritious and locally produced food by enhancing the capacities of small-scale producers and SMEs. The project also aims to increase access to food for consumers whose nutritional requirements put them at high risk of malnutrition – such as women of reproductive age, and children.
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