• Course Pitch
This course covers Innovative Harvest and Post Harvest Solutions to the specific context of SmallHolder farmers. The core focus will be to help you learn about the need for connecting smallholders with the right markets to improve their profitability and the role of digital technologies in providing effective market linkages for their produce.
Specifically, the course covers the following themes:
-->Market linkage solutions disintermediating agricultural commodities with examples
-->Market linkage solutions disintermediating horticulture products with examples
-->Farmer to consumer models with case examples
-->Summary of the role of market linkage solutions and their effectiveness in enhancing profitability for SHF

At the end of the course and the assessment you will be able to apply the right harvest and post harvest innovations to the context of agriculture production business.

• Content & Assessment Guidelines
Please review the course outline below to set your expectations related to the content & certificate assessment needs for the course. You can complete the assessment and download Agribusiness Academy completion certificate. You can expect to complete this course and certification assessment in about 3-5 hours. We wish you a lot of success with the course/pathway and very sure that it will help you gain more clarity and execution confidence towards your outcome.

• Course & the Pathway Connection
This course can be pursued independently or as part of “Food Losses and Food Waste” learning & reflection pathway. The pathway is designed to help you understand the ways in which waste can be avoided and how to build new value propositions from waste streams. The objective of this pathway would be to introduce you to innovative value propositions around reducing and/or leveraging waste. The pathway takes a value chain approach to and hence can prove valuable no matter which link in the value chain you are connected with. If you choose to enroll in the pathway, you'll have the option to receive an extra certificate upon completing the reflection exercise for the pathway. Enrolling to the pathway also gives you access to our facilitators via the AA Slack channel. You can review and enroll to the full pathway by following this link: https://lms.agribusiness.academy/catalog/index/cat:186

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