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type: monograph
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contact_email: Library-ICRISAT@cgiar.org
creators_name: Jones, R
creators_name: Freeman, H A
creators_name: Monaco, G L
icrisatcreators_name: Jones, R
icrisatcreators_name: Freeman, H A
icrisatcreators_name: Monaco, G L
affiliation: ICRISAT(Nairobi)
affiliation: ICRISAT(Bulawayo)
country: Kenya
country: Zimbabwe
title: Improving the access of small farmers in eastern and southern Africa to global pigeonpea markets.Agricultural Research and Extension Network Paper No. 120
ispublished: pub
subjects: s1.2
subjects: s2.4
full_text_status: public
monograph_type: documentation
keywords: TROPAG, Cajanus cajan, small farms, exports, quality, international trade, marketing channels, cash crops, grain legumes, pigeon peas, Central Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania
note: Network Paper - Agricultural Research and Extension Network, ODI (UK), No. 120 
abstract: Recent developments in sub-Saharan Africa highlight an increasing trend toward liberalized domestic markets and foreign trade. To take advantage of these developments, small-scale farmers must be able to participate in productive activities in which they have a competitive advantage. This implies access to well-organized marketing, distribution and post-harvest systems; effective market information; and technologies that allow them to be price and quality competitive. An outline is given of an ongoing strategic partnership between the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, and TechnoServe Inc., an international non-profit business development organization, and their work with a range of public and private sector actors to improve the incentives for smallholders to produce high-quality pigeon peas targeted at high-value niche markets differentiated by quality standards. In Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania, smallholder farmers are being linked to different niche markets through a range of institutional and market arrangements. A regional strategy to introduce new technologies, along with simple and easily administered quality standards based on end-user needs, can help farmers, traders and exporters to benefit from niche markets that demand higher quality standards than the traditional export market for fair average quality (FAQ) grain. .
date: 2002
date_type: published
series: Agricultural Research & Extension Network (AgREN) Papers series 120
number: 120
publisher: Agricultural Research & Extension Network
pages: 16
institution: Agricultural Research & Extension Network 
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 085003 584 8
book_title: Improving the access of small farmers in eastern and southern Africa to global pigeonpea markets
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citation:   Jones, R and Freeman, H A and Monaco, G L  (2002) Improving the access of small farmers in eastern and southern Africa to global pigeonpea markets.Agricultural Research and Extension Network Paper No. 120.  Documentation. Agricultural Research & Extension Network.     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/6048/1/AgREN_NP_120_Jan_2012.pdf