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About the book
This book is an intensive collaborative research and policy support program undertaken to understand the keys to inclusion into agrifood systems under different degrees of restructuring, to deepen the research on implications and opportunities for small-scale producers and SMEs, to understand what is best practice in connecting small-scale producers with dynamic markets, and to bring these findings into the wider policy arena. The book covers nine regions in the world, though it covers only the research done in Southeast Asia.
About the authors
LARRY DIGAL, PhD is an associate professor at the University of the Philippines Mindanao and teaches managerial economics, agricultural price and policy analysis, strategic management and quantitative economics. He serves as Dean of the School of Management. Dr. Digal finished his Ph.D and MS in agricultural economics at the University of Sydney Australia and Purdue University West Lafayette Indiana, USA respectively. He finished his undergraduate in the same field at the University of the Philippines Los Banos. Dr. Digal’s research interests include agribusiness value chain, market power and policy and contractual arrangements, and have published various articles in these areas. Prior to joining the academe, Dr. Digal has worked in both the private and public sectors. He was the Regional Coordinator for Southeast Asia, as well as a co-leader for policy outreach component, of the Regoverning Markets Programme.
FELICITY PROCTOR, Ph.D has worked for over 30 years in the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and the World Bank, as well as with internationally recognized academic and policy centers. Her background is in technical, institutional, and policy development relevant to poverty reduction and economic growth in rural areas. In addition to broader policy, she has focussed on technical and organizational aspects of horticultural industry development, and food production and marketing systems. Felicity Proctor is currently engaged with work on policy outreach linking action-research to public, private, and civil society policy and institutional change processes, specifically in the context of dynamic change in domestic agrifood markets and in rural territorial development. She is an independent consultant and a Visiting Fellow of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), UK.
BILL VORLEY, Ph.D, has a background in ecology and trained in the farm fields of southern England and Southeast Asia. After eight years of working in agribusiness, he continued his research interest in the ‘greening’ of industry, spending three years at the Leopold Centre for Sustainable Agriculture in Iowa. After which he joined the Institute for Agriculture Trade and Policy in Minneapolis, Minnesota as director of the Environment and Agriculture Programme. He moved to London in 1999 to join the IIED, where his work focused on policy and market research for sustainable agriculture and rural development. He has coordinated the Regoverning Markets Programme since 2003.
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