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To improve and sustain farm productivity, farmers require information on inputs, postharvest management and markets, and exposure to new technologies and best practices. Traditionally public agricultural extension...

Fermentation is an ancient processing technique that relies on microbes to transform raw materials into products with increased food safety, commercial value, nutritional value, health features, and sensory...

In addition to identifying gender gaps and other challenges and opportunities for entrepreneurship in agricultural growth and development, this brief focuses on potential for improvement in the key areas of (1) seed systems...

Our paper seeks to identify factors that inhibit and promote women’s success in seed businesses, through three case studies of women’s and men’s entrepreneurship across varying...

Women play important roles at different nodes of both agricultural and off-farm value chains, but in many countries their contributions are either underestimated or limited by prevailing...

Students at bio-based economy faculties across Europe are currently busy finalising their business cases on an innovative technology, product, and/or solution that would demonstrate...

Occupational sex segregation is a key driver of the gender gap in earnings. Using data from 11,691 aspiring agribusiness entrepreneurs across five states in Nigeria, this paper explores...

The Commission's Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs is responsible for EU policy on the single market, industry, entrepreneurship and small businesses.

This How To Do Note (HTDN), prepared jointly by IFAD’s Land Tenure and Youth teams, presents the challenges and opportunities for young people seeking to access land for employment...

The TTO Circle organised a workshop ‘Connecting with the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem’, which took take place in Brussels on 24 October 2019. The workshop dealt with the challenges connected to establishing...