Agriculture Articles & Case Studies

Adaptive Management Agriculture Paper Southern Asia

Making Sense of ‘Messiness’

The Springfield Centre and Samarth-NMDP, February 2014 This paper provides a critical practitioner insight into how a large, multi-sector market…

Springfield Centre20/02/2014

Agriculture Case Study Eastern & Southern Africa Facilitation

Improving input supply markets in the Somali Region of Ethiopia

Mercy Corps, June 2013 A new case study co-researched and written with Mercy Corps to explore how their RAIN programme…

Springfield Centre20/06/2013

Agriculture Case Study Facilitation Southern Asia

Making ICT Work for Bangladesh’s Farmers

KATALYST, Bangladesh, November 2012 This case study explores Katalyst’s efforts to enable the country’s leading telecoms operators to develop service…

Springfield Centre20/11/2012

Agriculture Case Study Facilitation Western, Northern & Central Africa

Making Tractor Markets Work for the Poor in Nigeria

PrOpCom Nigeria, October 2011 This case study details the experience of the PrOpCom programme in developing the market for commercially-provided…

Springfield Centre20/10/2011

Agriculture Case Study Facilitation Western, Northern & Central Africa

Making Fertiliser Markets Work for the Poor in Nigeria

PrOpCom Nigeria, September 2011 The case study documents the programme’s engagement with large fertiliser companies to improve their commercial marketing…

Springfield Centre20/09/2011

Agriculture Case Study Europe Facilitation

Market Alliances against Poverty in the Samtskhe-Javakheti Region of Georgia. Creating a sustainable market for AI services: an interim case study

SDC/Mercy Corps, October 2010 This case study, commissioned by SDC/Mercy Corps, illustrates how an M4P project is going about changing…

Springfield Centre19/10/2010

Agriculture Case Study Europe Facilitation

SDC Making Markets Work Case Study: SDA – Elola Case Study

SDC, Switzerland, December 2008 This case is one of a series exploring the application of the Making Markets Work for…

Springfield Centre19/12/2008

Agriculture Case Study Development Effectiveness Europe

Making Markets Work for the Poor – Case Studies Series: “Common framework for learning and managing change: Experiences from SDC regional programmes in the Balkans and South Caucasus”

SDC, Switzerland, November 2006 This case study is based on two SDC initiatives using Making Markets Work for the Poor…

Springfield Centre19/11/2006

Agriculture Case Study Facilitation Southern Asia

Enhancing the Supply-side of the Maize Market

KATALYST, Bangladesh, June 2006 Our second case study on the work of KATALYST in Bangladesh which focuses on their work…

Springfield Centre12/06/2006

Agriculture Global MSD Guidance Paper

Making Markets Work for the Poor – “Comparative Approaches to Private Sector Development” (Spanish)

SDC, Switzerland, April 2006 A technical paper (prepared on behalf of the FAUNO Consortium) exploring the application of the Making…

Springfield Centre12/04/2006

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