Toolkit

A Guide to Rapid Market Appraisal (RMA) for Agricultural Products

Author: Tiago Sequeira Wandschneider, Ngo Thi Kim Yen, Shaun Ferris, and Tran Van On

Published year: 2011

Category: Guidelines & Toolkits

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Abstract:

This Guide to Rapid Market Analysis Methods is a product of the experiences and lessons learnt while implementing agro-enterprise projects in Latin America, Africa and S.E Asia. This manual is one of a series of agro-enterprise publications developed through a collaborative learning alliance between the Catholic Relief Services and the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture, focused on rural agro-enterprise development. The aim of this set of methods and tools is to enable service providers to empower rural communities to engage more effectively in the marketplace so as to increase their income, their capacity to innovate and ultimately improve their livelihood options.

LandFinanceHub is designed to facilitate the interaction between MSME which need funding with Financier that are looking for potential clients and their forestry and agriculture projects in the global south to be financed. The main objective of LandFinanceHub is to increase the flow of finance to deforestation-free commodity production and sustainable land use. The Hub also contains training materials and toolkits for the benefits of MSMEs and Financiers. The LandFinanceHub has been developed through the Green Finance For Sustainable Landscape Project which is jointly managed by United Nation Environment Program Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) with funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF).