Food Hub has created an online marketplace that leads to offline face-to-face relationships with both large and small scale farmers.
Alter Eco, which works directly with small-scale farmers who grow quinoa, rice, sugar and chocolate to help them institute Fair Trade.
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So we asked ourselves, what if we cut out those middlemen and connected small-scale farmers in Latin America directly to consumers here?
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According to Yves Berger of Interbev, large parts of the French countryside are maintained by small-scale farmers breeding draught horses for the meat market.
Most recently, she has designed the Sylva Solar Food Dryer to sell to small-scale farmers who can use it to add value to their produce.
Sustainable Harvest is a coffee importer working with 200, 000 small-scale farmers.
Fairtrasa helps underprivileged small-scale farmers in third world countries escape poverty and improve their lives by providing them with technical support and access to international markets.
Emily Kerr: Five years from now, Liga Masiva is working with thousands of organic small-scale farmers across Latin America, who grow everything from artisan vanilla, to cacao, to coffee.
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We will then visit Wenchi, in Western Ghana, to see how SAP and the African Cashew initiative (ACi) are supporting small-scale farmers with innovative technology that benefits actors along the entire agricultural value chain.
Later, I had a brief stint as a journalist on the business beat in Mexico, where I became familiar with the challenges faced by agri-businesses and small-scale farmers who lacked access to capital and markets.
According to a recent survey, Zimbabwe's peasant farmers want to be small-scale commercial farmers and they can do it: they now produce most of the country's maize and cotton.
Thousands of small-scale cashew nut farmers in Tanzania - who usually begin to harvest in October - sell their crops to co-operative societies at an agreed price.
Among the likely winners in the fragmented and mostly small-scale fish producing industry are either suppliers to farmers or companies that can obtain economics of scale in ocean fishing.
If a mere fraction of the public money spent on big irrigation projects were spent on small-scale works in the semi-arido, he argues, subsistence farmers could survive the drought with their animals and livelihoods intact and with no need to beg for aid from the local political bosses.
Surely it is plain that it is better to invest in the expertise of small-scale specialist organisations such as Send a Cow, and to accept that charities administered by farmers engineers or doctors (and like professionals)represent best value for money.
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