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Special Report: Agriculture Smallholder value chains

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AGRICULTURE
Smallholder value chains

Content includes:

PRIVATE SECTOR
Commercialising smallholder production
POLICY
Enabling environment is key to growth
COMMENT
Andris Piebalgs, Michael Hailu,Ram Bhavani and Khalid Bomba