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Building Networks for Market Access

Lessons Learned from The Rural Knowledge Network (RKN) Pilot Project for East Africa (Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania)

Year of publication 2011

Author Paul Nyende under the overall guidance of the Research and Extension Branch

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Agricultural markets in the East Africa region are characterized by a myriad of constraints, among them being very long chains of transaction between the farmer and the consumer; poor access to reliable and timely market information; small volumes of products of highly varied quality offered by individual smallholder farmers; and poorly structured and inefficient markets. This has resulted in wastage of produce and low prices to smallholder farmers. Lack of timely and relevant mark et information to all market actors results in distrust and therefore sometimes dishonesty. Under such circumstances dubious intermediary actors have flourished and further damaged the trust relationships required for efficient and profitable marketing along the whole value chain. The RKN initiative intended to address some of these gaps in the region.

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