Like other Sahel countries, Senegal experienced a succession of food and nutrition crises in 2005, 2008, 2010 and 2012 …

The development and implementation of an efficient institutional food procurement programme (IFPP) - which aims to link … smallholder producers to institutional markets and promote development of food supply systems - is not a simple or straightforward …

Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Index (FAO 2015). Its main economic activity is agriculture, including …

some case studies that follow the evolution and impact of what we call 'institutional demand' policies. Institutional … distribution, primarily through local and regional food procurement (LRP). We also address the question of smallholder farmers …’ dependency on state-based market interventions, and review existing evidence of how institutional purchase programmes have …

as a policy instrument targeting broader development objectives. These initiatives - also referred to as Institutional … Food Procurement Programmes (IFPPs)3 - are based on the premise that public institutions, when using their financial … developing a range of food procurement initiatives designed to use the regular demand for food on the part of government entities …

. In a similar vein, public food procurement has also been used to promote a number of positive outcomes. There is growing … smallholders into markets and strengthen rural livelihoods. Despite the expansion of public food procurement from smallholder … farmers, research into these novel strategies is still limited. This paper will address some of the research gaps by …

-trained farmers. Based on a study in Senegal this paper hypothesizes that the question of the project placement strategy is vital when … analyzing knowledge diffusion effects of FFS in Africa. Results show that the share of trained farmers in a community is a … trained farmers is important to attain effective dissemination of information and to generate positive stimuli for adoption …