Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (21 Seiten)
Series Statement:
AVE-Studie 23
Keywords:
Entwicklungszusammenarbeit Landwirtschaft
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Armut
Abstract:
Against the background that the number of extremely poor people in many developing countries is not declining despite considerable efforts, the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF) at the University of Duisburg-Essen conducted a four-year research project entitled "Ways out of extreme poverty, vulnerability and food insecurity". The aim of the project was to develop recommendations for German official development cooperation with regard to improving target group reach and sustainable living situations for extremely poor, vulnerable and food-insecure populations groups. The research focused on analysing projects that mainly work within the following topics: (i) access to land and tenure security, (ii) value chains and (iii) social security.Participation, socio-cultural factors and gender aspects were always taken into account as crosscutting issues. In the focus countries Benin, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Ethiopia and Kenya, good practice projects were identified for the above-mentioned priority topics and, in a second step, their effectiveness was examined on site.Based on our fieldwork and research of the past four years, this article deals with the subject area of agricultural value chains as well as their effects and challenges, and derives recommendations for development cooperation from this. The vast majority of the poor and food-insecure in developing countries live in rural areas and are primarily dependent on agriculture. Participation in agricultural value chains thus makes an important contribution to poverty reduction and food security for these people.
URL:
https://www.uni-due.de/imperia/md/content/inef/ave_23b_wertsch%C3%B6pfungskette_final.pdf
