The study reveals that government intervention and donor funds are essential to enable small-scale enterprises to attain their full potential.
This paper reports on a Participatory Learning and Action Research PLARR) process that was initiated in three villages in eastern Uganda in September 1999 to enable small-scale farmers to reverse nutrient depletion of their soils profitably by increasing their capacity to develop, adapt and use integrated natural resource management strategies.
Nurture the leadership habit of assessing what works, and what doesn't, to enable small-scale changes on a routine basis along with deeper shifts at pivot points.
But governments can do more than enable small-scale farmers to buy seed and fertiliser.
Appropriate incentive structures (institutional, legal, economic, and social) are needed to enable small-scale fishing communities to sustainably manage the aquatic resources they and future generations depend on for their well-being without jeopardizing their social and economic development.
But 3D printing enables smaller scale and decentralized production, closer to the final consumer.
The tech platform enables small-scale farmers to access information and share expertise with their peers around the world through either sending an SMS or accessing the online forum.
The paper confirms that pest-resistant Bt brinjal has enabled small-scale family farmers who grow the crop to make big reductions in their use of pesticides and dramatically increase their income from selling the vegetables in local markets.
An alternative design pumps permeate into a flexible bladder within the pressure vessel that contains the membranes, eliminating the need for a pressure exchanger and enabling small-scale operation.
This is a peer-to-peer agtech network that enables small-scale farmers to access and share vital agricultural information, crucially, even if their internet access is limited.
Meanwhile, I'm told accountants like the service, too, as it potentially enables small practices to scale and therefore take on more clients.
