EXPERTISE > Agricultural Development and Marketing
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eveloping countries where the biggest share of the population lives in rural areas and depends on agricultural production, agricultural development plays a key role in poverty alleviation and sustainable growth. It creates a basis for sustainable rural development and increase of the living standards. Through appropriate management of land, water, and wastes agriculture can promote environmental sustainability. Agricultural development promoted by the donors is aimed at increase of production efficiency, promotion of new technologies and sustainable use of resources. Today when the World faces the challenge of nearly doubling food production in order to meet the food needs of an increasing population, combined with environmental challenges, agricultural development receives an increased importance.
ABG experience in the sector covers:
- Development of agriculture, including improvement of quality of agricultural production, innovations in production cycle
- know-how transfer in agriculture
- development of agricultural trade, including disadvantaged areas (development of export stimulation strategies, commodity exchanges, establishment of warehouses and development of retail trade, etc)
- marketing of agricultural products, including issues of standardisation and certification, support to national marketing associations, etc
- establishment of Market Information Systems to increase market transparency and incomes of rural producers
- risk management and agricultural insurance
- development of rural advisory services and local support infrastructure, e.g. rural Enterprise Development Agencies, machinery rings, rural business-incubators, etc