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Case study: Increased incomes for Indonesian cocoa farmers in sustainable markets
07/10/2011 in Case studies
VECO’s experience working in Sulawesi in partnership with the global cocoa trader Armajaro illustrates how partnering with the private sector can optimize our impact, improve smallholder farmers' livelihoods, and increase the likely sustainability of farmers' gains. A case study of NGO-private sector cooperation on Sulawesi island, Indonesia.
Congo finally has a new national framework law for agriculture
04/05/2011 in Insights
An SMS with only capital letters and exclamation marks, and three enthusiastic telephone calls from Kinshasa: the Congolese Parliament has finally voted the agriculture law! If you stop to think about it a moment, it is actually rather strong: only in the second decade of the 21st century a law is voted in Congo that establishes the general principles of the agricultural sector.

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