WORKING

With Smallholders

A Handbook for Firms Building Agribusiness Supply Chains, Third Edition

By International Finance Corporation

Thi s handbook aims to enable the development of more sustainable, resilient, and productive agribusiness supply chains and to illustrate their developmental impact. Smallholder farmers present both opportunities and challenges for agribusinesses. The predominance of smallholders in many frontier and emerging markets makes them an integral part of agribusiness supply chains.

The third edition compiles innovative solutions to these challenges, incorporating case studies from across diverse regions and agribusiness sectors. It incorporates new developments and areas of interest since the last edition, including the growing predominance of digital technologies and increasing concerns around sustainability.

August 2023. 472 pages.

Stock no. C211962 (ISBN: 978-1-4648-1962-9). US$54.95

THE COMMONS Drivers of Change and Opportunities for Africa

Edited by Stéphanie Leyronas, Benjamin Coriat, and Kako Nubukpo

The Commons explores the many forms of development being championed by Africa’s residents, users, and citizens. In addition to managing property and shared tangible and intangible resources collectively, communities are experimenting with a concept of “commoning” founded on values such as community, engagement, reciprocity, and trust. In practice, their approach takes the form of land-based commons, housing cooperatives, hybrid cultural spaces or places for innovation, and collaborative digital platforms.

This report examines historical and recent practices and new theories in commons scholarship. It also examines the tensions, drivers of change, and opportunities that surround commons dynamics in Africa. In addition, it highlights the abundance of commons-based entrepreneurial processes in Sub-Saharan Africa and shows that partnerships between African public authorities and communities involved in the commons can be powerful drivers of sustainable development for the continent.

Authored by the Agence francaise de developpement (AFD), this publication is a new title in the Africa Development Forum, a series copublished by the AFD and the World Bank.