Highlights Small and medium-sized agricultural enterprises (agriSMEs) are facing unprecedented pressure due to rising prices for food, fertilizer and fuel, with many scaling back their...

Food systems are made up of a cluster of different value chains, including output, lateral, and research and development. This paper explores the rise of SMEs in transforming food systems—from...

IFAD’s Near East, North Africa and Europe (NEN) Division operates across 21 countries spread across three continents. The economies, agricultural ecosystems, climates...

Most support programs targeted at small firms in low- and middle-income countries fail to generate transformative effects at a large scale due to poor targeting, too little...

Recent Macroeconomic Developments and Outlook The economy had begun to recover from the COVID shock, but it is now faced with renewed uncertainty. Following economic contraction in 2020, growth...

FISH4ACP is a five-year EUR 40 million programme led by the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) that aims to tackle some of the underlying challenges to sustainable fisheries...

Greening our food systems to deliver healthier and more nutritious food sustainably cannot be done without financially empowered agricultural small and medium-sized enterprises...

This is a preliminary report by external experts tasked by the EU in 2020 to analyse the implications of the compliance obligations under the EU ABS Regulation on compliance measures for users from the Nagoya Protocol...

A nutrition-sensitive value chain (NSVC) is a food value chain that has been shaped to alleviate constraints in the supply or demand of food, as they relate to dietary and nutrition problems...

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the midstream (processors, wholesalers and wholesale markets, and logistics) segments of transforming value chains have proliferated rapidly over the past several...