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 Introduction / Employment of best practices in agricultural activity and food
production.
3. Development of Infrastructure
 Investing in infrastructures capable to ensure a better conservation and better
storage so as to avoid post-harvest losses. Improving logistics infrastructure to
facilitate transport and the distribution of food products among the Exporting and
Importing Member States.
 Developing infrastructure in rural areas with a view to increasing access to food
supply in rural areas and farmers’ motivation to survive with their families in local
areas.
 Encouraging the development of both physical infrastructure (i.e. irrigation,
renewable energy, ICT, etc.) and social infrastructure (schools, hospitals, etc) at the
local level to support agro-production and processing.
4. Financing and Investment
 Increasing access of producers to sufficient finance and diversifying credit
opportunities
 Encouraging FDI flows in the OIC Region for increasing investments in Agriculture
and facilitating technology transfer.
 Formation of a farmer cooperatives and producers’ unions to accumulate capital for
financing new investments
 Encourage the organization of investment promotion forums/conferences on sub-
sectors of agriculture which bring together relevant stakeholders to mobilize the
resources among OIC Member Countries.
5. Market Performance and Market Access
 Establishing/improving a Farmer Registry System for farmers/farmer organizations
to provide customized supports and assistance as well as extension and market
information for farmers,
 Providing need based capacity development support and training to farmers and
farmer associations for increasing their access to warehousing and storage capacity,
 Establishing/improving the ingredient and input traceability as well as marketing
oriented product standardization and certification to enhance safety and
marketability of agricultural products in both domestic and international markets
 Designing Market Information Systems (MIS) through assessing and reviewing
targeted stakeholders with a sustained budget support and an effective monitoring
and evaluation framework,
 Building sufficient capacity for stock monitoring, trend analysis and forecasting as
well as other relevant subjects beyond providing price information for a better
functioning MIS,
 Linking MIS to other market-supporting institutions and/or other risk-management
tools to increase the mutual benefits,
 Encouraging the development of retail markets to ensure physical access of
consumers to the products