agribusiness

9 November 2021 - Alexander Kasterine
Counting carbon in the food export business
Alexander Kasterine explores how climate change concerns are changing market requirements for developing country food exporters
Climate
24 September 2020 - Marlynne Hopper
Future-proofing safe trade now urgent for developing countries
COVID-19 is highlighting the interconnectedness of agri-food trade; and work needs to be done to mobilise action to build safe food systems
Agriculture
COVID-19
Trade facilitation
18 August 2020
Launching a small business, leveraging trade fairs
Biruktawit Begashaw started her own export company, Qine Trading, five years ago in Addis Ababa. Her business got a boost after attending Gulfood in Dubai, sponsored through Ethiopia’s Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Enhanced Integrated Framework.
Agriculture
Aid for Trade
MSMEs
18 August 2020 - Deanna Ramsay
Focusing on export development, Ethiopia’s small businesses seeing success
For a new business owner, one international trade fair got things rolling
Agriculture
Aid for Trade
MSMEs
16 July 2020 - Sophia Gnych
COVID-19 and the seed sector: How countries are navigating challenges
OECD’s Seed Schemes are working to protect food systems globally, with important benefits for least developed countries
Agriculture
COVID-19
15 June 2020 - Houria Djoudi
Protecting trees, empowering women, ensuring incomes – suggestions for a just shea story
How to ensure the women who collect shea benefit from being part of the global marketplace
Women and trade
Global Value Chains
Environment
14 May 2020
Small business owner in Ethiopia sees a future in ag products
Tewodros Yilma of Alpha Trading in Ethiopia discusses his business processing and exporting agricultural products, the role of trade fairs and his plans for the future.
Agriculture
Aid for Trade
MSMEs
14 May 2020 - Deanna Ramsay
For this Ethiopian exporter, the future is in food
Finding new buyers and tapping new markets, harnessing agriculture’s potential
Agriculture
Aid for Trade
MSMEs
17 December 2019 - Deanna Ramsay
David Laborde: Addressing the nexus of food security, trade tensions and developing economies, where are we now?
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Senior Research Fellow discusses agriculture-based economies and how the current US-China trade situation is affecting the world’s poor
Agriculture
19 August 2019 - Deanna Ramsay
In Uganda, enterprises bringing sensibility – and scents – to their development
Government plus grassroots combo laying foundations for MSME success
Agriculture
MSMEs
30 July 2019 - Deanna Ramsay
Samuel Musoke: Cultivating one’s business while nurturing others in Uganda
In Masaka, mobilizing and educating the small enterprises that need it most
MSMEs
6 June 2019 - Cornelius Gregg Bolormaa Tumurchudur Klok Milagros Lazo Castro
In Malawi, bolstering youth and women’s employment through sectoral skills strategies
Skills strategies can provide a bridging mechanism to enable disadvantaged groups such as youth and women to gain from international trade.
Agriculture
Aid for Trade
Global Review 2019
29 August 2018 - Deanna Ramsay
Comoros in bloom
Island nation focusing on its unique, specialty plant life to kick start economic growth
Agriculture
23 July 2018
Strengthening inclusive agribusiness for export growth
Inclusive and sustainable agribusiness value chains can provide one of the highest returns on investment in terms of growth, poverty reduction, pro-poor employment, and women's economic empowerment in LDCs.
Agriculture