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Facilitating pro-poor business

A new book from the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) presents five cases (ginger in Sierra Leone, tuna in Ghana, organic cocoa on the Dominican Republic, biodiesel in Mali and a trade house in Mali) to illustrate the factors a good facilitator needs to take into account when bringing together all actors to form a social enterprise.

Local Sourcing

Local sourcing refers to agri-business companies in developing countries that source their food inputs from local farmers, and sell their end product to the domestic market. On the 20th of April 2011, Agri-Profocus organizes an expert meeting to share experiences on local sourcing. The event will feature cases from Ghana, Sierra Leone, Zambia and Rwanda. [...]