Facilitating Smallholder Farmers’ Market Access
In the OIC Member Countries
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internal governance arrangements and strategies to strengthen the links between
producer organizations and national agricultural and research systems and between
producer organizations and actors downstream in the value chain. Identifying
mechanisms for resolving disputes effectively and building producer organizations’
capacity to use those mechanisms will also have strong payoffs. Platforms for consultation
and collaboration can provide many benefits as they link the public and private sectors,
farmer organizations, and other stakeholders to facilitate knowledge sharing and address
policy and other shared issues related to a particular commodity.