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Inclusiveness of Agricultural Markets and Food Security

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Zero Hunger

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Inclusive agricultural supply chains; Inclusive agricultural value chains; Inclusive food commodity markets

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The notions such as inclusiveness, inclusive markets, inclusive agricultural markets, inclusive agricultural value chains, and inclusive agricultural supply chains have been broadly introduced in value chain analyses with aim to improve the competitiveness of different supply channels shifted in direction of increasing possible opportunities for the poor (Altenburg 2007). This shift began in the 1990s, when widespread economic liberalization has opened up the RNFE (rural non-farm economy) to new opportunities and to new threats. Liberalization has reduced direct government involvement in agricultural markets, opened new market opportunities for private sector, and relaxed controls on foreign exchange and foreign investment, enabling foreign direct investment inflow across developing world (Haggblade et al. 2007). According to Haggblade et al. (2007, p. 3),...

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  1. Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Banja Luka, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Vesna Mrdalj

  2. Centre for Development Research (CDR), University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria

    Hamid El Bilali

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Mrdalj, V., El Bilali, H. (2019). Inclusiveness of Agricultural Markets and Food Security. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Zero Hunger. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69626-3_28-1

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