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Case study: Promotion of the rice value chain in Benin
11/10/2011 in Case studies
Vredeseilanden/VECO started a rice programme in Benin in 2002 to boost the capacities of farmers and their organisations to produce high quality rice. The central goal is to increase farmers' incomes through improved cultivation and access to modern, dynamic markets.The programme has resulted in significant outcomes, including local self-sufficiency for households in the Collines, a 50% increase in per hectare productivity, professionalized farmers’ organisations that have developed the ability to export.
The Farmer Effect: presentations and background readers for the cases
10/10/2011 in Case studies
On Friday 14th of October Vredeseilanden and the University of Leuven organised a 'farmer effect' workshop on how different value chain actors within agricultural and food chains take initiatives towards sustainability on economic, social, cultural and ecological level and how farmers and their organizations respond to these initiatives.
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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