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Regional Market Linkages
CDC Development Solutions has utilized our Regional Market Linkages model to foster strengthen networks and provide embedded technical assistance across a number of sectors, including trade, extraction, ICT, and agribusiness.
A business services linkages adaptation of the model has fostered the growth of business support services in more than a dozen countries and has helped to reinvigorate trade in regions where deteriorated infrastructure and relationships had all but put a halt to cross-border transactions.
An agribusiness-focused version of our Regional Market Linkages model works with small-holding farmers to increase production volume and quality, assists agro-processors and distributors to improve their internal business processes and develops technical packages that can be used by suppliers to ensure produce is meeting specific standards. Our approach balances the relationship between producers and buyers through the development of multiple agro-processor-led supply chains and grower-owned industry infrastructure.
By leveraging the existing business community and addressing systemic problems in the regional value chain for a specific sector, CDC Development Solutions builds a structure that increases the quality and volume of production or services as it expands market access and revenue.
