Sustainable and Fair Economic Development

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With this page ICCO Alliance wants to share information relevant for Sustainable and Fair Economic Development (SFED).

Below you will find a description of the thematic programmes, and in the sidebar you can navigate to more elaborate information on these topics. 

 

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The SFED programmes

The Sustainable Fair Economic Development (SFED) Programme is aimed at sustainably improving the socio-economic position of poor people through a market mechanism that is fair, social, ecologically sustainable and economically viable. The ICCO Alliance focuses on small producers, employees and self-employed workers in rural areas.

 

 

The central aims of these programmes are

IM:Small producers and employees in three production chains gain access to the international market and add value to their products, which initiates a structural change in the sector and improves their socio-economic position.

LMD: Small producers and employees sustainably improving their social economic position within local markets through greater market access, more chain influence and a better competitive position via differentiated strategies.

FS: Due to the access to microfinancial institutions and (innovative) financial services small producers, self-employed workers and employees in rural areas can improve their socio-economic position.

CB: through the deployment of Dutch, transnational and local companies and businesses, small producers, self-employed workers and employees can sustainably improve their socio-economic position and the support in the Netherlands for socially responsible business in the South is increased.

The Climate Plan diminishes CO2 emissions and supports the development of poor countires with alternative energy that does not contribute to global warming. Or by planting trees that fix CO2.

 

 

Useful reading materials and websites

as selected by your host on this wiki, Rob Witte:

 

Organic Exchange is a non-profit organization with a global reach committed to expanding organic agriculture. Their specific focus is to significantly increase the sustainable, global production and use of organically grown fibers such as cotton

 

DWARF MEETS Giant; African Farmers in a Globalizing world, Context Paper by Dirk Bol of CDP on Agriculture in the African Economy:  

 

The publication “Organic Markets in Africa” is available in IFOAM’s bookstore. For further information, visit the IFOAM website

 

ECSAD Rough Guide: Partnerships, Power and Equity in Global Commodity Chains: A ‘Rough Guide’ to Partnerships for Development

The topics of this publication are (1) Partnerships as strategic choice and positioning, (2) The link between the ‘partnership’ and the ‘chain’, (3) Partnership roles, (4) A ‘life cycle’ view of commodity chain development, (5)Selecting viable chains, (6) Linking issues and roles to life cycle phases, (7)Searching for viable partners, (8)Establishing the partnership, (9) Managing relations within the partnership, (10) Exit strategy

(Report of AgriProFocus-ICCO discussion on October 10, see http://www.agri-profocus.nl/detail_event.phtml?act_id=113&banner=banner6&next_page=meeting 

 

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