inclusive business

The Practitioner Hub for Inclusive Business and The Partnering Initiative, with support from the UK’s Department for International Development, developed a series which focused on the role of partnerships in delivering inclusive business. They explored why and when partnerships are necessary, why they can be so challenging, and how those challenges can be overcome. »

These guidelines by FAO have been developed to support the growth of inclusive business models (IBMs) that integrate smallholders into agricultural value chains. Small actors in agricultural value chains are tied to markets through a series of forward and backward business linkages, which incorporate various types of business models. The complexity of these business models varies according to the commodity, number of actors involved, local context and market structure. »

Business Innovation Facility (BIF), is a pilot programme funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), that has provided hundreds of inclusive businesses with technical and advisory support, which means the BIF team has been truly inside the ‘engine’ of business. This report is the culmination of the lessons learned during this work, written at the completion of the BIF pilot. The report draws together findings on inclusive business models that work – or don’t – and the journeys that companies are making. »

In the May newsletter of the Food & Business Knowledge Platform (F&BKP), you can find two new event reports: one about the recently held stakeholder workshop on micronutrient management and another about the Food and Nutrition Security Exchange days for FNS policy staff working in The Hague and Dutch Embassies. You can also read the discussion »

The Food & Business Knowledge Platform has supported the development of the online course “Introduction to Inclusive Business”. The course is aligned to a number of existing activities done by MDF Training & Consultancy, Wageningen UR/CDI and the Inclusive Business Accelerator consortium. After the launch on June 6, 2016, the course will continuously be available on the IBA.ventures »

This paper by IFAD looks at the role of agriculture in fostering inclusive and sustainable development in Sub-Saharan Africa. It discusses how improving agricultural productivity, smallholder access to markets and expanding agribusiness opportunities can accelerate transformation, investment and industrialization. The paper presents key investment and policy elements to be considered and points to the centrality of smallholders for the rural transformation process to be inclusive. »