Closing policy gaps to enable agripreneurship of smallholder farmers in developing countries

Saner, Raymond and Yiu, Lichia with Roberts, Shuan

“Closing policy gaps to enable agripreneurship of smallholder farmers in developing countries”

FERDI, Paris, June 2023

This study investigates the broader context of smallholder farmers' operations and provides insights into the options that smallholder farmers in poor developing countries have when engaging in agripreneurial undertakings for additional income generation. Such personal agency when effective could support them to alleviate poverty, reduce hunger, and achieve sustainable livelihood. Yet in practice, such personal efforts are often wrought with uncertain outcomes. Therefore an enabling policy environment is necessary to ensure the success of this strategic intervention in lifting and supporting sustainable livelihoods of rural farmers struggling with the precarity of their life situation.

 

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