Poster: Increasing capacity of smallholder farmers to produce and market indigenous leafy green vegetables

Description

Kate Scow and Abraham Salomon, University of California, Davis & Sam Mwebe, Rural Agency for Sustainable Development present their poster at the 2013 Annual meeting in Nairobi, Kenya.

STUDY AIMS -

What special considerations do we need for horticulture to fit Into the national goal of commercializing smallholders?

  1. Develop strategies to improve horticulture market links to non- commercial farmers

  2. Identify key factors to adoption or non adoption of horticulture as a household enterprise

  3. Propose interaction effects FFS / other articipatory extension can interact with market development programs

Type

Poster 2013 annual meeting

Value Chain

Fruit and vegetable production Training and extension

Crop

African indigenous vegetables

Countries

Uganda Democratic Republic of the Congo