Tools
The following are models and inclusive development programs that promote the establishment of business relationships between organizations of producers of low-income communities and the market:
Rural partnership support programs
Rural partnership support programs
A series of activities organized according to the process of production, processing and commercialization (agricultural/livestock, forestry and fishery) in order to optimize productive resources and consolidate rural companies.
Business incubator programs
Business incubator programs
Planned environments for transforming ideas and projects into products and services, stimulating the creation of and strengthening innovative companies (including technology companies and companies in traditional sectors).
Programs for strengthening participatory organization and business in rural areas. This methodology developed by FAO (2015) is developed with groups of associated rural producers that recognize the importance of organizing themselves in order to promote and/or improve their productive micro-entrepreneurships and access to the market.
Agro-territorial tools
Agro-territorial tools
Agro-territorial tools are strategic instruments for increasing the competitiveness of agricultural and agro-industrial development (through the generation of externalities in job markets and the environment) and attracting investment.
- Agroparks: promote added value through processing
- Agroclusters: develop locally connected links within a value chain
- Agrobrokers: stimulate an infrastructure-software continuum
Agro-tool objectives
(a) Attract investments to the region and create jobs
(b) Increase exports and domestic sales of agroindustrial products
(c) Promote the competitiveness of the segments of the agroindustrial chain located in the territory
(d) Stimulate the inclusion of small farmers and SMEs
More information in: Getting economic brokers to work in agriculture. FAO, Gálvez 2014.
Common practices for implementing programs and approaches for rural entrepreneurship development: