3ie news 238d ago

Over the last two decades, development actors have increasingly focused on integrating rural farmers into agricultural markets as a poverty reduction strategy. Yet major barriers persist: high transaction costs, distance to markets, limited capital, weak bargaining power, structural market inefficiencies, and risk exposure. In an era of constrained development budgets, it is critical to ground interventions in the best available evidence. In that spirit, 3ie recently conducted a new systematic review critically appraising and synthesizing the evidence covering five types of market access interventions and their effects on agricultural, socio-economic, food security, and nutrition outcomes for smallholder farmers in low- and middle-income countries.