The Farmers Enterprise Development (FED) initiative launched in 2003 has provided a platform for ICRAF scientist and their partners to test an innovative approach that consists in strengthening farmers market knowledge and skills to benefit from increasing on farm production with improved planting material of fruit, medical and culinary trees and plants.The project specifically seek to enhance livelyhoods by increasing the market value of targeted agroforestry tree product (AFTPs) through the promotion of relevant entrepreneurial skills,harvest and pos-tharvest technologies and getting farmers to understand the sail of their way through meandering and fluctuating market dynamics of these unusual economic good.
Publication year
2007
Authors
Tata M H L; Harja D; Joshi L; van Noordwijk, M.
Language
English
Keywords
small enterprise development, agroforestry systems, trees, farmers, markets, agricultural research
