Guidance on designing and implementing agricultural programmes that follow the MSD approach, whilst achieving environmental objectives
Findings of a job quality diagnostic used in the RisiAlbania programme
Despite favourable agro-ecological conditions, agricultural yields are low and households are vulnerable to food shortages and high livestock mortality rates
Responding to market contexts is key to MSD - and achieving systemic development may depend on facilitators daring to ‘go hybrid’.
SHARPE's work to develop commercial poultry production in the Gambella region of Ethiopia
PRISMA'S semester progress July-Dec 2022 and the annual plan for 2023
This guide focuses on sustainable food value chain development in fragile & conflict-affected situations
An overview of how the Markets in Crisis approach to drought response leveraged existing relationships and built on RIPA-North’s development interventions to meet immediate humanitarian needs
Building commercial relationships between farmers, buyers, input retailers and other value chain actors
Evaluation of CHAIN's eight years of work with poor vegetable farmers and processors
What happens when you build gender equality into a sustainable market solution? That solution lasts and grows for years after projects end.
Results of research carried out with Primark (Pakistan), Waitrose (Kenya) and the Ethical Tea Partnership (Kenya & Malawi)
A meta-review review of 11 World Vision Australia projects focusing on agri-food systems.
A toolkit for procurement teams in their critical role in delivering corporate sustainability and responsible sourcing strategies that affect smallholder farmers
How Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP) is integrating gender dimensions into climate action
Independent review of SHARPE's first two years of applying an MSD approach to foster greater economic integration between host and refugee communities in FCAS
Market systems development programmes support people living in poverty helping to increase their income, gain employment, and purchase basic goods. The approach can achieve sustainable impact at scale, but faces …
Market systems development programmes working in complex environments need to understand the context they work in, monitor changes, and adapt their work accordingly. This sounds simple but is challenging in practice. …
Over a decade of facilitation on the Alliances programmes has allowed us to define what we think it is, and what makes it work, in our new version of the …
Improving economic security for poor smallholder farmers in Mozambique through improved productivity and development of high-potential value chains
The U.S. Government’s Global Food Security Strategy and the MSD approach