Marketing and research
This ranges from rapid appraisals of a particular market or supply chain to whole sector studies. Specific issues are analysed, such as taxation, income distribution, cost structure, social impacts and policy formulation.
Examples:
- Uzbek cotton and Tajik horticulture sector studies (Cotton Taxation in Uzbekistan. Opportunities for Reform)
- organic cotton transaction costs analysis in Mali
- world market analysis of cottonseed
- cotton producer pricing system in Benin
- inter-related cereal markets in West Africa
- integration of small-scale horticulture producers into supply chains
- Wheat production, transformation and consumption in Uzbekistan