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Output Market Linkages
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 Access to output markets – ranging from small
village-level markets to sophisticated export processors – is key for small
farmers to earn more from their products. Poor farmers in remote areas appear to
have limited access to markets for their products. However, by assessing
transport costs and focusing on multiple high-value storable crops,
opportunities emerge to create output market linkages with a rate of return that
is very attractive to poor families.
IDE has enabled poor farmers to progress to highly
profitable cultivation by increasing the diversity and reach of output market
linkages. In Vietnam, IDE has created a stable market for the produce of more
than 600 small farmers by establishing a model coconut processing
factory and developing the local market for dried coconut. As part of its program
to enable prosperity for poor families in upland Vietnam, IDE is
researching opportunities for poor families in remote hill areas to produce
horticulture, animal, and fish products for markets on the coastal plains
through improved production and market linkages.
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