market chain
Over the last decade, market practitioners working for Practical Action across South Asia, Eastern and South Africa, Latin America and the UK have developed, tested and improved a participatory and systematic approach to markets that reduces poverty as scale - PMSD. Participatory Market System Development (PMSD) is Practical Action’s approach to inclusive markets that reduce poverty on a...
This issue of Farming Matters presents a small sample of the many innovative marketing arrangements being developed by both producers and consumers. These experiences generate substantial employment, and also build local food security and food sovereignty. Yet they are often overlooked by policymakers and mainstream development experts who view them as “niche”...
The Participatory Market Chain Approach (PMCA) was developed by the Papa Andina Regional Initiative of the International Potato Center (CIP) to improve the competitiveness of potato market chains and small potato producers in the Andean region of South America. Beginning in 2005, CIP and Papa Andina partnered with the Regional Potato and Sweetpotato Improvement Network in Eastern and Central...
