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Agriculture and Rural Development Transforming the rural sector in developing economies
Meeting the Millennium Development Goals will require an
acceleration in the transformation of rural economies, diversifying
economic activity within them to achieve equitable integration with
the national and eventually, the global economy. We recognise the
essential roles that both the private and public sectors have to
play in this process. In many cases the income and growth gap
between urban and rural areas, where the majority of the World’s
poor still live, is growing. This increasing inequity is becoming
ever harder to redress, and threatens social cohesion. Further key
challenges include: ensuring environmental sustainability; climate
change mitigation; and developing the capacity to cope with the
increasing importance and sophistication of globalised marketing
chains and the systems and the wide range of statutory and private
standards that are now integral to them.
Nathan EME is at the forefront of the search for ideas, approaches,
and interventions that will transform rural sectors. Building on
experience, research, and lessons learned, Nathan EME has an acute
understanding of the complex issues involved in developing the rural
world.
Drawing on the technical and analytical skills of our staff in our
core areas of expertise – rural sector strategy and policy analysis,
market-based approaches to rural development, and programme
management and support services – we help public and private
organisations achieve this transformation in the rural sector. Please click here for our Practice brochure. We have undertaken agriculture and rural
development projects for all the major donors in Africa, Asia ,
Latin America and the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe. A selection of
recent projects can be found below. For additional information,
please do not hesitate to
contact
us.
Asian Development Bank:
Nathan EME prepared two strategy papers on the future role of reducing poverty throughout Asia and the implications for donor support.
Lesotho:
Nathan EME managed a four year World Bank funded project to increase
private sector provision of agricultural support services, and
replace a top-down approach to public extension systems with a
user-driven, bottom-up system.
Moldova:
The Government of Moldova commissioned
Nathan EME to inform a new
approach for the government’s support of the cereals sector based on
learned lessons from past approaches to food security and grain
price stabilization policies.
Nigeria: As
part of a £17 million project, Nathan EME applied the Making
Markets Work for the Poor (MMW4P) approach
to introduce system change in key markets through constituency
building and interventions across the public and private sectors and
civil society.
Sierra Leone: Nathan EME is currently undertaking in depth value
chain analyses in a number of key sectors to assist in the
development of a commercial agricultural sector. |
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