Short answers, but distributed to you all, to wrap up this e-conference's input -- Peter
Q5.1/7 - 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."
Drying of wild okra, producing of oils, paste groundnuts, and other
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Q5.2/6 - Question "5.2. Do food businesses in your region play an important role within the food system? How? Please provide specific examples."
Wild okra and paste groundnuts, which are constituting the main dishes to majority of Sudanese people
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Q6.1/11 - Question "6.1. What are the policies (international, national or local) in your region that affect the viability and development of small farms, and small farms’ decision making regarding the amount and type of food produced and their ambitions
regarding market integration?"
- Access to bank facilities,
- subsidizing inputs,
- poor extension services,
- fluctuation of crop prices,
- monopoly of big companies and traders to sesame.
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Q6.2/9 - Question "6.2. Can you give specific examples of how these policies have affected small-farm decision-making?"
Cost of one ton of sesame, in the last season was about SDGs 600, and this year has risen to above SDGs 3,000
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Q6.3/9 - Question "6.3. What are the most critical policies that are needed in your region to support small farm development and increase their role in food and nutrition security in the (regional) food system?"