Entrepreneurship

part of daily tasks, over more formal planning 
methods.
•  Encourages staff to make personal contacts with 
stakeholders and others within the organisation, 
as a basis for management by trust rather than 
by position, hierarchy or formal reporting lines.
Source: Adapted from Small Enterprise Development, Vol. 10, No. 4, December 1999: 
p36-37

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The development 
of farmers’ skills 
in business 
management 
although necessary 
is insufficient…
Access to finance is often essential to implement a business plan. A farmer being 
guided on the financial aspects of her business - Uganda
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FA
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/ J. Koelen/ 22949
Quality inputs are often necessary to increase productivity. 
Woman receiving inputs from a rural dealer - Zambia
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AO/ 
Alberto Conti/17872

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Access to finance often leads to an expanding farm business and opportunities 
to enter export value chains - Eritrea
©IF
AD/ 
Susan Beccio
For women  
access to credit is 
often constrained 
by their status in 
society
Microcredit is helping women develop their 
farm enterprises – Kenya
©IF
AD/ 
Giacomo Pirozzi
©F
AO/Roberto Faidutti/ 19407 
...It needs to be 
backed by access  
to credit, land  
and markets for 
farm enterprises to 
develop and grow.
Better access to land often requires changes to land tenure arrangements.  
Young farmers extending their cultivable land - Rwanda

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Organization,