The document proposes a farm-to-fork business model to help farmers overcome poverty by eliminating middlemen, reducing production costs, and providing a fair contracted price. The business would directly source crops from targeted farmers in a specific region and supply to product subscribers, local restaurants, and an online marketplace. Financial projections estimate the business will reach break-even in 2024 and maximum annual profit of nearly 60 million USD by 2030 by sourcing from over 1 million farmers.
- The document discusses the problems smallholder farmers in East Africa face, including lack of access to adequate financing and reliable markets. This traps them in subsistence farming and poverty.
- It proposes an approach for Pearl to address the underlying issues through forming cooperative groups of farmers, providing access to loans and inputs, and guaranteeing markets for crops. This would connect financing, markets and production to commercialize agriculture.
- Key strategies outlined include organizing farmers into registered groups, providing technical training, facilitating large commercial loans, and securing guaranteed markets to help farmers transition beyond subsistence to sustenance.
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2. Potential opportunities include high-growth niche markets like swiftlet farming and developing higher value products through innovations like organic farming. Exploiting new technologies can also help create new industries and markets.
3. To succeed, firms should look for novel strategies like targeting non-traditional markets, applying university research, and exploiting barriers to entry to develop specialized, high-value products. They must also stay attuned to changing consumer tastes and new industries enabled by emerging technologies.
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This document summarizes an experience with economic inclusion in agri-food value chains in Ethiopia. It identifies problems like low avocado production and high food insecurity. Interventions included designing livelihood packages to provide inputs, training, and jobs to extremely poor households. This increased avocado production and reduced losses and post-harvest, benefiting over 40,000 households. Lessons highlighted investing in the poor can profit value chains and improve food security, and policies need an equity approach to support nutrition goals.
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This document summarizes key questions about small farms that will be discussed at an upcoming conference on smallholder agriculture. It outlines that while most small farms eventually disappear as countries develop, many small farms in developing countries are still important for food security, employment, and poverty reduction. The document also notes that small farms require support to compete fairly with large farms and discusses how investments in commercial small farms and subsistence small farms can both effectively reduce poverty.
- The document discusses the problems smallholder farmers in East Africa face, including lack of access to adequate financing and reliable markets. This traps them in subsistence farming and poverty.
- It proposes an approach for Pearl to address the underlying issues through forming cooperative groups of farmers, providing access to loans and inputs, and guaranteeing markets for crops. This would connect financing, markets and production to commercialize agriculture.
- Key strategies outlined include organizing farmers into registered groups, providing technical training, facilitating large commercial loans, and securing guaranteed markets to help farmers transition beyond subsistence to sustenance.
Maintaining competitiveness with Globalization in AgricultureMurray Hunter
1. Globalization has increased market integration and competition through specialization and trade. This presents opportunities for developing competitive advantages but small firms must understand global market dynamics.
2. Potential opportunities include high-growth niche markets like swiftlet farming and developing higher value products through innovations like organic farming. Exploiting new technologies can also help create new industries and markets.
3. To succeed, firms should look for novel strategies like targeting non-traditional markets, applying university research, and exploiting barriers to entry to develop specialized, high-value products. They must also stay attuned to changing consumer tastes and new industries enabled by emerging technologies.
The Brussels Development Briefing n.47 on the subject of “Regional Trade in Africa: Drivers, Trends and Opportunities” took place on 3rd February 2017 in Brussels at the ACP Secretariat (Avenue Georges Henri 451, 1200 Brussels) from 09:00 to 13:00. This Briefing was organised by the ACP-EU Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), in collaboration with IFPRI, the European Commission / DEVCO, the ACP Secretariat, and CONCORD .
This document summarizes an experience with economic inclusion in agri-food value chains in Ethiopia. It identifies problems like low avocado production and high food insecurity. Interventions included designing livelihood packages to provide inputs, training, and jobs to extremely poor households. This increased avocado production and reduced losses and post-harvest, benefiting over 40,000 households. Lessons highlighted investing in the poor can profit value chains and improve food security, and policies need an equity approach to support nutrition goals.
IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION ON AGRICULTURESabir Shaikh
Indian agriculture has made rapid strides since Independence. In taking the annual food grains production from 51 million tonnes in early fifties to 206 million tonnes at the turn of the century, it has contributed significantly in achieving self-sufficiency in food and in avoiding food shortages.
Whole Foods Market is a $9 billion industry leader in the grocery sector, operating 301 stores in North America and the UK. While some claim the recession and increased competition threaten Whole Foods, the document argues that Whole Foods remains financially healthy compared to competitors and continues growing sales. The "Whole Experience" of attractive stores, knowledgeable staff, and high-quality prepared foods and local suppliers keeps customers loyal and differentiates Whole Foods, so it should continue its successful strategy rather than pursue drastic changes.
This document summarizes key questions about small farms that will be discussed at an upcoming conference on smallholder agriculture. It outlines that while most small farms eventually disappear as countries develop, many small farms in developing countries are still important for food security, employment, and poverty reduction. The document also notes that small farms require support to compete fairly with large farms and discusses how investments in commercial small farms and subsistence small farms can both effectively reduce poverty.
This document discusses initial findings from a research project on supporting agroecological entrepreneurs in Africa. It surveyed 68 agroecological businesses across 17 countries. Most were small farms, aggregators, or processors serving local markets. Entrepreneurs cited personal savings as their main funding source and faced challenges accessing loans and markets. The document outlines different types of agroecological enterprises and highlights some inspiring examples. It concludes by inviting feedback on supportive businesses in readers' countries and how to better support agroecological entrepreneurship.
The document outlines a commercialization strategy for Aflasafe, a product that reduces aflatoxin levels in maize. It aims to establish a premium market for low-aflatoxin maize in Nigeria to incentivize farmer adoption. The key target market is the poultry industry, which currently deals with high aflatoxin contamination levels. The strategy involves working with aggregators like Babban Gona to boost farmer yields above 3MT/ha, allowing for a $6.25/MT premium. Over time, the premium can increase to $56/MT as the poultry industry saves up to $0.72 per broiler. Regulatory enforcement will help sustain the premium market.
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The document discusses the impact of the 2008 financial crisis on agricultural financial markets and the food and agribusiness sector. It summarizes that agricultural lenders were in strong financial health going into the crisis due to low debt levels. It then outlines the various types of agricultural lenders and discusses impacts to commercial banks, commodity prices, and major agribusiness firms from the crisis. The crisis led to declining commodity futures prices and impacted supply chains, input costs, and trade.
This document discusses opportunities for investing in smallholder farmers in Africa to address food insecurity and poverty. It notes that Africa has significant untapped agricultural potential but currently imports half its food and half of farmers' production is lost. Smallholder farmers are key to success if given access to credit, inputs, and markets. The model proposes integrating investments across agricultural value chains to link farmers to processors and international food markets. It has had early success improving incomes and aims to scale its impact through franchising models, partnerships, and risk mitigation finance. The goal is to transition millions of families out of poverty in a sustainable way that protects smallholder interests.
The document discusses a case study involving decision making for a cereal company. It provides information on calculating return on equity and cost of capital. It analyzes the cereal industry including threats from substitutes and competition. The document also examines the company's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Finally, it reviews the company's product mix and various strategies being considered.
“High value agriculture and market linkages in India” presented by Pratap S. Birthal, National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research (NCAP) and P. K. Joshi, IFPRI at the ReSAKSS-Asia Conference, Nov 14-16, 2011, in Kathmandu, Nepal.
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Pathways for sustainable development of mixed crop-livestock systems in devel...ILRI
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1. The document discusses approaches to addressing food insecurity and rural poverty through microcredit and improved agriculture. It outlines challenges small farmers face and opportunities to raise competitiveness.
2. Key recommendations include diversifying financial products for agriculture value chains, using innovations like mobile phones to reduce costs, and partnerships between financial and agricultural support organizations.
3. For development groups, the document recommends supporting productivity, market access, insurance products, and an enabling environment for finance and technologies in agriculture.
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The document outlines Cambodia's agricultural transformation over the past 10 years and identifies opportunities and risks going forward. Key changes include increased productivity, expansion of rice milling, changing labor patterns, and infrastructure growth. Driving forces were policy reforms, investment, technology adoption, and higher food prices. Sustaining growth requires improving the business environment, public-private partnerships, skills development, and strategic national programs. The diagnostic study will analyze four commodities across regions using surveys, focus groups, and comparing to a previous study to inform Cambodia's agricultural roadmap.
Vipani is a nonprofit founded in 2004 to help extremely poor farmers in developing countries overcome poverty permanently. They provide farmers access to resources like seeds, pesticides, and education to successfully grow crops and earn a profit. Vipani identifies profitable crops, ensures successful harvests, and connects farmers to stable markets. This allows farmers to improve their lives, sending their children to school, owning land and assets, and gaining food security and medical care. Vipani's localized approach and focus on the poorest farmers has helped thousands rise out of poverty.
The document discusses 5 big questions farmers should ask themselves about whether they are enjoying and can sustain their current farming practices. It also outlines 5 potential options for farmers to consider: 1) improving profitability, 2) changing their business structure, 3) changing enterprises, 4) changing their capital base, or 5) exiting farming. The author questions whether most resources encourage only incremental changes and whether more support is needed for transformational changes, given climate challenges.
This document discusses initial findings from a research project on supporting agroecological entrepreneurs in Africa. It surveyed 68 agroecological businesses across 17 countries. Most were small farms, aggregators, or processors serving local markets. Entrepreneurs cited personal savings as their main funding source and faced challenges accessing loans and markets. The document outlines different types of agroecological enterprises and highlights some inspiring examples. It concludes by inviting feedback on supportive businesses in readers' countries and how to better support agroecological entrepreneurship.
The document outlines a commercialization strategy for Aflasafe, a product that reduces aflatoxin levels in maize. It aims to establish a premium market for low-aflatoxin maize in Nigeria to incentivize farmer adoption. The key target market is the poultry industry, which currently deals with high aflatoxin contamination levels. The strategy involves working with aggregators like Babban Gona to boost farmer yields above 3MT/ha, allowing for a $6.25/MT premium. Over time, the premium can increase to $56/MT as the poultry industry saves up to $0.72 per broiler. Regulatory enforcement will help sustain the premium market.
Gender focused service provision and its impact: IPMS Goma experienceILRI
Presented by Yisehak Baredo at the Gender and Market Oriented Agriculture (AgriGender 2011) Workshop, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 31st January–2nd February 2011
The document discusses the impact of the 2008 financial crisis on agricultural financial markets and the food and agribusiness sector. It summarizes that agricultural lenders were in strong financial health going into the crisis due to low debt levels. It then outlines the various types of agricultural lenders and discusses impacts to commercial banks, commodity prices, and major agribusiness firms from the crisis. The crisis led to declining commodity futures prices and impacted supply chains, input costs, and trade.
This document discusses opportunities for investing in smallholder farmers in Africa to address food insecurity and poverty. It notes that Africa has significant untapped agricultural potential but currently imports half its food and half of farmers' production is lost. Smallholder farmers are key to success if given access to credit, inputs, and markets. The model proposes integrating investments across agricultural value chains to link farmers to processors and international food markets. It has had early success improving incomes and aims to scale its impact through franchising models, partnerships, and risk mitigation finance. The goal is to transition millions of families out of poverty in a sustainable way that protects smallholder interests.
The document discusses a case study involving decision making for a cereal company. It provides information on calculating return on equity and cost of capital. It analyzes the cereal industry including threats from substitutes and competition. The document also examines the company's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Finally, it reviews the company's product mix and various strategies being considered.
“High value agriculture and market linkages in India” presented by Pratap S. Birthal, National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research (NCAP) and P. K. Joshi, IFPRI at the ReSAKSS-Asia Conference, Nov 14-16, 2011, in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Vipani is a nonprofit founded in 2004 to help extremely poor farmers in developing countries overcome poverty permanently. They provide farmers access to resources like seeds, pesticides, and education to successfully grow and sell crops, ensuring a stable market. This empowers farmers to improve their lives, with many now able to send their kids to school, own land and livestock, and have regular meals instead of living in constant desperation. Vipani aims to replicate this model to help millions of impoverished farming families.
Pathways for sustainable development of mixed crop-livestock systems in devel...ILRI
Presented by Shirley Tarawali, Mario Herrero, Katrien Descheemaeker, Elaine Grings and Michael Blümmel at the Workshop on the Assessment for sustainable development of animal production systems, 3 November 2011.
This document outlines steps for analyzing and addressing a social problem or situation: 1) Identify the situation, 2) Collect information from multiple perspectives, 3) Reflect on what is concerning and why, 4) Ask questions to understand the history, decisions, groups and values involved, 5) Work to understand the full situation, and 6) Strategize and plan ways to resolve the problem based on the understanding developed. It then provides a detailed analysis of the situation of smallholder farmers in the Philippines, identifying factors that prevent them from achieving their potential, such as market inefficiencies and lack of investment, and makes recommendations.
1. The document discusses approaches to addressing food insecurity and rural poverty through microcredit and improved agriculture. It outlines challenges small farmers face and opportunities to raise competitiveness.
2. Key recommendations include diversifying financial products for agriculture value chains, using innovations like mobile phones to reduce costs, and partnerships between financial and agricultural support organizations.
3. For development groups, the document recommends supporting productivity, market access, insurance products, and an enabling environment for finance and technologies in agriculture.
IFPRI Egypt Seminar Series provides a platform for all people striving to identify and implement evidence-based policy solutions that sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition. The series is part of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded project called “Evaluating Impact and Building Capacity” (EIBC) that is implemented by IFPRI.
Malachy Mitchell, Managing Director, Farrelly & Mitchell - reveals how balancing demand generation and ensuring supplies to meet demand is key fpr success. Government is a vital link to production capacity with various support schemes as well.
2. Agricultural Development of Bangladesh.pdfLAZINAAZRIN
This document discusses the agricultural sector of Bangladesh. It notes that agriculture is the largest sector of Bangladesh's economy, contributing 13% to GDP and employing 62% of the labor force. Key crops include rice, jute, sugarcane, potato, pulses, wheat, tea and tobacco. However, Bangladeshi agriculture faces challenges such as small landholdings, lack of irrigation, natural disasters, and outdated farming methods, limiting productivity and growth. The document outlines opportunities to modernize and commercialize agriculture through improved access to credit, seeds, technology and markets.
The document outlines Cambodia's agricultural transformation over the past 10 years and identifies opportunities and risks going forward. Key changes include increased productivity, expansion of rice milling, changing labor patterns, and infrastructure growth. Driving forces were policy reforms, investment, technology adoption, and higher food prices. Sustaining growth requires improving the business environment, public-private partnerships, skills development, and strategic national programs. The diagnostic study will analyze four commodities across regions using surveys, focus groups, and comparing to a previous study to inform Cambodia's agricultural roadmap.
Vipani is a nonprofit founded in 2004 to help extremely poor farmers in developing countries overcome poverty permanently. They provide farmers access to resources like seeds, pesticides, and education to successfully grow crops and earn a profit. Vipani identifies profitable crops, ensures successful harvests, and connects farmers to stable markets. This allows farmers to improve their lives, sending their children to school, owning land and assets, and gaining food security and medical care. Vipani's localized approach and focus on the poorest farmers has helped thousands rise out of poverty.
The document discusses 5 big questions farmers should ask themselves about whether they are enjoying and can sustain their current farming practices. It also outlines 5 potential options for farmers to consider: 1) improving profitability, 2) changing their business structure, 3) changing enterprises, 4) changing their capital base, or 5) exiting farming. The author questions whether most resources encourage only incremental changes and whether more support is needed for transformational changes, given climate challenges.
1. Farm to Fork
A sustainable and economic food supply for our future
Hult Prize Challenge
2021Food for
Good
Presenting by
Team Thanos
1
2. Team Introduction
Fahim Mostakim Omi
Faculty of Business
Administration and
Management
NoushinTabassum Maliha
Faculty of Business
Administration and
Management
Tahmid Adib
Faculty of Business
Administration and
Management
Refaya Ryan
Faculty of Business
Administration and
Management
2
3. Invest Money
and
Hard labor
Produce
precious
crops
Try
to sell
and
make profit
Have loss
for
lack of storage
and
syndicate
Get
Bankrupt,
commit suicide
Or
loose their
Farmland
Takes risk again
And
Stand to
Defeat poverty
The Trap
Of
Poverty
3
4. What
1) eliminate
the monopoly
2) reduce their
production cost
3) Eliminate every
possible mediator
Why
1) To make supply chain
simple
2) To give fair price
3) reduce syndicate
How
1) every resource
Farmers need
2) give contracted
fair price
3) Increase storage
facility
4)Direct Supply
To Do
4
5. Approach to the Farmers
Target
a
specific
Region
Choose
Farmers
just as
our
demand
But why they
will join us?
5
6. 1. Resources
3. Reduced production cost
4. Easy loan repayment
2. Zero % interest rate
5. Fair price
Can sell the yield
To us
or
The government
only
Safe Pesticide
And safe usage Rate
6
Here we will have delivery categories and Our focus will be to reduce carbon foot print during the delivary.
Product subscribers will have their package delivered to their houses.
Restaurants will collect their product from the nearest storage facility or give us a specific delivery charge to get it to the doorstep.
Market place buyers will get their order and give the delivery in the same way as the product subscriber.
As we surveyed on 15families to estimate cost and selling price and we hope if we can stay on track we can easily touch the BEP in 4 years .
And later in 8years we can touch the maximum profit even more we have shown in the graph as we will start our sustainable vertical farmland and storage facility to reduce the cost price.
In conclusion we can say in 2030 our company can give service to more than 10 million people and touch a big profit along with maintain social welfare. All we need now is your support.
We team Thanos, Thank you for your attention and valuable time.