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SUMMARY:Webinar on understanding smallholder farmer access to voluntary sus
 tainable standards VSS-compliant markets
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:There are an estimated 500 million smallholder farmer families 
 globally\, many of whom make up a large proportion of the world´s poor. T
 hese farmers work small plots of land\, often earning and producing enough
  to survive but not enough to rise out of poverty.\n\nVoluntary Sustainabi
 lity Standards (VSS) are instruments to influence how global value chains 
 operate\, strengthen farmer´s market access and an alignment towards the 
 sustainable development outcomes - economic\, social and environment.\n\nF
 indings from the SSI Review: Standards and Poverty Reduction suggest tha
 t VSS compliance can contribute to poverty alleviation in important ways\,
  such as supporting skills training for farmers\, that can support better 
 practices\, producer knowledge and capacity to grow higher-quality and mor
 e sustainable products.\n\nThis webinar aims to shed light on the factors 
 that influence smallholder farmer participation in VSS-compliant markets\,
  in order to understand how limitations can be addressed and enabling fact
 ors harnessed.\n\nThrough presenting a study by UNCTAD and IISD that colle
 cted data from the field on factors that affect smallholders access to VSS
  compliant markets in six developing countries and six value chains\, the 
 webinar aims to:\n\n\nUnderstand the conditions that enable (or limit) sma
 llholder farmer access to Voluntary Sustainability Standard (VSS)-complian
 t markets\nIdentify best practices for creating an enabling environment fo
 r sustainable production and trade\nProvides inputs on the way forward to 
 better harness the advantages of VSS by smallholders and producers in deve
 loping countries.\n\nhttps://www.iisd.org/publications/ssi-review-standard
 s-poverty-reduction\n\nView meeting on unctad.org\nhttps://unctad.org/meet
 ing/webinar-understanding-smallholder-farmer-access-voluntary-sustainable-
 standards-vss
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