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of entrepreneurship in agricultural support services.
FAO members are assisted with appropriate policies, strategies and methodologies for strengthening agricultural support systems and the delivery of services as well as technologies for production and post-production activities. The Division aims to assist farms and agribusinesses in developing managerial and technical skills for supporting production, post-harvest, infrastructural, marketing and financial operations related to developing and improving efficiency, effectiveness, competitiveness, and profitability of agricultural and food enterprises.
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THE MULTIMEDIA PROCEEDING DVD OF THE GLOBAL AGRO-INDUSTRIES FORUM -GAIF 2008- IS NOW AVAILABLE
The Multimedia Proceeding DVD of the GAIF 2008 contains:
- the video-recording and power point presentations of all the plenary sessions and the video-recording of the round tables of the Forum, profiling the speakers and panellists
- all the conference documents given to the delegates, in English, French and Spanish
- the power point presentations of the side-events on Innovation in Agro-industries showing Indian and worldwide case studies
- pictures of the event
To receive your DVD, please send an e-mail to gaif08@fao.org
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New Afrifood System Brief about Supporting Farmer Compliance with Private Standards now available
In recent years, private sector standards for food products have rapidly increased in number and compliance with some of these standards is becoming de-facto necessity to obtain market access. Certification, as a guarantee of compliance with these standards, can facilitate access to more lucrative markets than those for non-certified products. However compliance with such standards and their certification are often problematic for developing countries and specially for smallholder farmers. Many issues affect the participation of small-scale farmers in markets for certified high-value products. This policy brief provides an overview of the issues and a number of policy recommendations for countries and government, with a focus on private sector standards related to Good Agricultural Practices (GAP).
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New CD-Rom:
Marketing and agribusiness resources brings together many of the publications on agricultural marketing and agribusiness published by FAO since 1990.
The publication include training materials for extension workers and for university students, books on agribusiness and marketing policy, market information and farm input marketing and guides on value chains and on the planning and design of markets.
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