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Mark Your Calendar“Making Markets Work for Small-Scale Farmers” will air as a live video stream on May 25. Here is the link: http://www.iied.org/sustainable-markets/key-issues/market-governance/provocation-series-making-markets-work-for-smallhol The series is sponsored by the UN Research Institute for Social Development, the International Institute for Environment and Development, Hivos and Mainumby. This will be the fourth segment of a six-part series, and it will focus on the following questions:

  • Why are shifts taking place from smallholder to wage labor in agricultural markets?
  • What are the gender dimensions?
  • Is agricultural wage labor a route out of poverty for rural households?
 

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Sean Goforth

Sean H. Goforth is a graduate of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. His research focuses on Latin American political economy and international trade. Sean is the author of Axis of Unity: Venezuela, Iran & the Threat to America.