Hi everyone,
I wanted to draw your attention to our e-conference topic #5 concentrating on "The importance of food businesses to small farms”
In the SALSA Analytical Framework, food businesses are defined as "processors, distributors and retailers". A particular interest of the project is the type of relations which these businesses have with small farms and the
wider regional food systems, and the role they play in the viability and development of small farms.
(Input from the discussion moderator: Food businesses, large or small, such as processors,
distributors and retailers, are critical to food security and food production value chain, and to the resilience - or even “survival" - of small farmers. This is a really important topic - so, please contribute your
thoughts, ideas, wishes, and examples!!)
There are two specific questions in this topic:
Question 5.1. What kind of food businesses are important to small farms in your region? Which of these are small food businesses? Please also explain how you define small food businesses.
Question 5.2. Do food businesses in your region play an important role within the food system? How? Please provide specific examples.
We received one input (Thank you George Madoda!!) on this topic: Q5.1/1. - Input on “Question 5.1: What kind of food businesses are important to small farms in your region? Which of these are small food businesses?
Please also explain how you define small food businesses.”
In the northern Tanzania entrepreneurs have taken advantage of farmers produce and added value after-sales in local markets or export to neighbouring countries.
Banana, vegetables, maize, potatoes, rice are the main crops transformed into food. Farms' production depending on the strength of farmers, ability to produce and availability of resources to produce them. In my region,
sales of vegetables, maize, bananas, cassava/ cassava flour and potatoes is considered as small businesses. These can be found in streets of the town, small markets and farmers markets.
I (relate) small food businesses (also to the) collection of various crop mostly consumed, whether with value added or with no value added (services).
(It may also include also) food that (people) make in (their) own kitchen and sell it in small markets, restaurants, (on the road or via other means such as) mobile (sales points) such as bike, bicycles, or even in farmers
markets.
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