Financing issues is a very part of the problem.
Please help us build on family farming 2.0.

The Farmers Market will be either a physical market places or could be the virtual market. It will bring the similar producer group together and increase the bargain power of the farmers also it helps the farmers in a group to acquire support services of production acquire easily and efficiently. For this it requires one lead farmers of each group and one sales man among the farmers who can move to the market. It will work like a network of farmers of each village and than to the semi urban and urban market. It will connect farmers together and help to adopt capacity for climate change, disaster and technology.


 

Great provocation Mahmud – and a good call from Diego about Family Farming 2.0. Guys – let's start building more comprehensive ideas on how this might play out!

Yes Diego financing is always issue for the group of low income people, due to lack of visions of the farmer which is reality at least in Bangladesh and Afghanistan. Access to finance is the vital component to design the program. And thanks for idea of family farming because the ideas reflects the efficient productivity for the farmers. In Bangladesh we call it contract farming/contract grower. It is basically farmers every season has specific contract with the buyer with specific type of crops with a specific type of crops, so the farmers get right price of their crop. But in this case the farmers should have adequate land for farming. But Bangladesh is high density populated country. Land is very scarce and farmers used to farm on their homestead garden places. Moreover the literacy rate is very low among this group so the farmers need to participate in the market where the marginalize people and business people dose trade. So country like Bangladesh most of the farmers are marginalized farmers and many of them work in the rented small land and also in a very remote places then urban market. So the middle man took the advantages of their production and they gain the maximum profit out of it. Integrated farming by the house hold can help them to produce more and sell it in consume it for their better livelihoods. But however it requires involving the private sector for a business partnership formation and also customizes the micro credit operators in the farmers market. Almost every village has specific physical market where the farmers has the access but due to strong hold of the middle man of the market the farmers lose the benefit, where the suggestion of the Lauren was very thoughtful and that arrangement could motivate the farmers participate more effectively.

Great provocation Mahmud – and a good call from Diego about Family Farming 2.0. Let's start building more comprehensive ideas on how this might play out.