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AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Closing A Business

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Attached Document: 
application/pdf iconAgCLIR - Closing a Business.pdf
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USAID/BizCLIR
Document Type: 
PDF
Date: 
January 10, 2011

Rural businesses face unique risks to insolvency in many countries, notably loss of personal property.  Just as crop diversification is informally the beginning of a new business, a strategic shift away from certain products or processes is considered by this chapter. AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Closing a Business is a briefer that highlights the specific issues that must be addressed in regards to the local legal, regulatory, and institutional environments in starting an agribusiness. 

 

AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Enforcing Contracts

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Attached Document: 
application/pdf iconAgCLIR - Enforcing Contracts.pdf
Source: 
USAID/BizCLIR
Document Type: 
PDF
Date: 
January 10, 2011

 A country’s adjudication process may not align with the agricultural sector’s contracts pertaining to stored product, forward contracts and outgrower schemes, and price discovery in agricultural trade. AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Enforcing Contracts is a briefer that highlights the specific issues that must be addressed in regards to the local legal, regulatory, and institutional environments in starting an agribusiness. 

 

AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Trading across Borders

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Attached Document: 
application/pdf iconAgCLIR - Trading Across Borders.pdf
Source: 
USAID/BizCLIR
Document Type: 
PDF
Date: 
January 10, 2011

Agribusiness relies on sound and consistent trade policy, customs enforcement and efficiency at the border, and a comprehensive and straightforward adherence to international standards. AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Trading across Borders is a briefer that highlights the specific issues that must be addressed in regards to the local legal, regulatory, and institutional environments in starting an agribusiness.

AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Paying Taxes

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Attached Document: 
application/pdf iconAgCLIR - Paying Taxes.pdf
Source: 
USAID/BizCLIR
Document Type: 
PDF
Date: 
January 10, 2011

High tax rates in this sector lead to industry specific distortions, while informal business operations and trade flows constrain public sector revenue from agribusiness. AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Paying Taxes is a briefer that highlights the specific issues that must be addressed in regards to the local legal, regulatory, and institutional environments in starting an agribusiness. 

 

 

AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Protecting Investors

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Attached Document: 
application/pdf iconAgCLIR - Protecting Investors.pdf
Source: 
USAID/BizCLIR
Document Type: 
PDF
Date: 
January 10, 2011

 Agribusinesses have a number of industry-specific options for raising capital, including grassroots cooperatives and direct international investment in productive infrastructure. AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Protecting Investors is a briefer that highlights the specific issues that must be addressed in regards to the local legal, regulatory, and institutional environments in starting an agribusiness. 

 

AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Getting Credit

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Attached Document: 
application/pdf iconAgCLIR - Getting Credit.pdf
Source: 
USAID/BizCLIR
Document Type: 
PDF
Date: 
January 10, 2011

There are special risks for providers of agricultural credit including seasonality of production, geographic pockets of business failure, producers’ inability to use real or movable property as collateral, and difficulties in enforcing contracts on intangible property. AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Getting Credit is a briefer that highlights the specific issues that must be addressed in regards to the local legal, regulatory, and institutional environments in starting an agribusiness. 

 

AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Registering Property

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Attached Document: 
application/pdf iconAgCLIR - Registering Property.pdf
Source: 
USAID/BizCLIR
Document Type: 
PDF
Date: 
January 10, 2011

Agribusinesses rely on secure land tenure and ownership, as well as guaranteed, transferable rights to movable property (crops and processed goods) and intangible property (intellectual property and future harvests). AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Registering Property is a briefer that highlights the specific issues that must be addressed in regards to the local legal, regulatory, and institutional environments in starting an agribusiness.  

 

 

 

AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Employing Workers

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Attached Document: 
application/pdf iconAgCLIR - Employing Workers.pdf
Source: 
USAID/BizCLIR
Document Type: 
PDF
Date: 
January 10, 2011

The agricultural sector faces unique challenges regarding seasonality of employment, migration, working conditions and employment laws and policies, coupled with the fact that such a large percentage of the adult labor force are engaged in agriculture. AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Employing Workers highlights the specific issues that must be addressed in regards to the local legal, regulatory, and institutional environments in starting an agribusiness.  

 

 

 

EAT Project - Outreach Brochure

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application/pdf iconEAT Project - Outreach Document.pdf
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The EAT Project
Document Type: 
PDF
Date: 
January 4, 2011

 This document provides an overview of the activities of the EAT Project, which offers a flexible vehicle through which USAID (MIssions and HQ), State Department, MCC, USDA, and other USG agencies can access a wide range of services for agribusiness enabling environment analysis, program development, strategy, and capacity building. 

AgCLIR Chapter: Starting A Business

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Starting an agribusiness can be as simple as clearing an unclaimed plot of land, growing a crop of potatoes, and selling them in a nearby retail market or as complex as investing in a sophisticated manufacturing plant capable of using complex chemical extraction to turn tons of corn into products for consumption or industrial use. Most agricultural enterprises, even when oriented to production for the market, are managed by individual farmers or households who produce crops on land secured only with traditional tenure rights.

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