agribusiness

Agribusiness Development Project (ADP)

Title: Agribusiness Development Project (ADP)

Country: Moldova

Primary Focus: Value Chain, Agricultural

Start Date: 2004

Objective: ADP represents the 2nd generation of USAID assistance to agricultural development in Moldova. Its goal is to increase rural incomes and employment by improving international competitiveness and trade performance of the agricultural sector and ensuring that private farmers achieve economic success in the transition to a market economy.

Agribusiness Activity (AgBIZ)

Title: Agribusiness Activity (AgBIZ)

Country: Macedonia

Primary Focus: Value Chain, Agricultural

Start Date: 2007

Agribusiness Market and Support Activity (AMARTA)

Title: Agribusiness Market and Support Activity (AMARTA)

Country: Indonesia

Primary Focus: Value Chain, Agricultural

Start Date: 2006

Agribusiness and Trade Expansion Program

Title: Agribusiness and Trade Expansion Program

Country: Ethiopia

Primary Focus: Job Creation

Start Date: 2006

Objective: Create job growth through increased sales and income by energizing the coffee, leather, oilseeds and horticulture sectors.

Key Implementing Partner: Fintrac

End Date: 2009 (+ 2 option years)

Burundi Agribusiness Project

Title: Burundi Agribusiness Project

Country: Burundi

Primary Focus: Value Chain, Agricultural

Start Date: 2007

Objective: The Burundi Agribusiness Program (BAP) will develop agro-enterprises that will raise rural incomes; diversify economic opportunity; strengthen competitive, commodity-based value chains that link producers to domestic, regional, and international markets; and stabilize the country so it does not relapse into chaos and bloodshed.

Key Implementing Partner: DAI

AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Closing A Business

Attached Document:

AgCLIR - Closing a Business.pdf

Source:

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: Employing Workers

Attached Document:

AgCLIR - 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.

Addressing the Impact of Climate Change

Addressing the impact of Climate Change on Agribusiness

Climate change poses many challenges for development. The climate threat comes from three separate but interconnected sources; global climate change due to concentrations of green-house gases; climate patterns (particularly the El Nino Southern Oscillation); and alternations in local climate due to changes in land surface. These factors are expected to increase the likelihood of extreme weather effects, including higher intensity storms, droughts and floods, and contribute to longer-term changes in temperature and precipitation.

AgCLIR Chapter: Closing A Business

A farmer deciding, after two rejected shipments, that the risks of producing green onions for the global market are too great and that the production of sweet potatoes for the local market would be better is effectively “closing the business” of green onion cultivation and starting another. The losses from the green onion business have already been absorbed by the household enterprise and sweet potato planting materials can be readily acquired. Such easy entry and exit characterize many agricultural enterprises in the developing world.