Linking Farmers to Markets: the Case of Zero Star Uni Pessoal

This paper presents a case study of how linkages between horticulture farmers and markets are being developed in Timor Leste, focussing on the case of Zero Star Uni Pessoal. As an approach to poverty alleviation, an international aid agency initiated a private sector development program. Apart from...

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Main Authors: Correia, Vincente, Rola-Rubzen, Maria Fay
Format: Journal Article
Published: International Society of Horticultural Science 2011
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Online Access:http://www.actahort.org/books/895/895_12.htm
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14745
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description This paper presents a case study of how linkages between horticulture farmers and markets are being developed in Timor Leste, focussing on the case of Zero Star Uni Pessoal. As an approach to poverty alleviation, an international aid agency initiated a private sector development program. Apart from helping farmers increase agricultural production, private sector involvement was encouraged. By strengthening the linkages between Zero Star and farmers, farmers benefited in terms of increasing incomes. Buyers also benefitted in terms of improvements in quantity and quality of the product, and therefore higher returns from trading.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-147452017-01-30T11:45:47Z Linking Farmers to Markets: the Case of Zero Star Uni Pessoal Correia, Vincente Rola-Rubzen, Maria Fay partnerships East Timor horticulture value chain This paper presents a case study of how linkages between horticulture farmers and markets are being developed in Timor Leste, focussing on the case of Zero Star Uni Pessoal. As an approach to poverty alleviation, an international aid agency initiated a private sector development program. Apart from helping farmers increase agricultural production, private sector involvement was encouraged. By strengthening the linkages between Zero Star and farmers, farmers benefited in terms of increasing incomes. Buyers also benefitted in terms of improvements in quantity and quality of the product, and therefore higher returns from trading. 2011 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14745 http://www.actahort.org/books/895/895_12.htm International Society of Horticultural Science fulltext
spellingShingle partnerships
East Timor
horticulture
value chain
Correia, Vincente
Rola-Rubzen, Maria Fay
Linking Farmers to Markets: the Case of Zero Star Uni Pessoal
title Linking Farmers to Markets: the Case of Zero Star Uni Pessoal
title_full Linking Farmers to Markets: the Case of Zero Star Uni Pessoal
title_fullStr Linking Farmers to Markets: the Case of Zero Star Uni Pessoal
title_full_unstemmed Linking Farmers to Markets: the Case of Zero Star Uni Pessoal
title_short Linking Farmers to Markets: the Case of Zero Star Uni Pessoal
title_sort linking farmers to markets: the case of zero star uni pessoal
topic partnerships
East Timor
horticulture
value chain
url http://www.actahort.org/books/895/895_12.htm
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/14745