ABSTRACT
The activities implemented in the framework of the Millennium Development Goals represent a serious attempt to reduce the number of poor worldwide before 2015, comparable to the Green Revolution in Asia in the 1960 and 1970s. Inclusion of smallholder agricultural producers in global value chains is a key strategy for reducing poverty. A major development challenge is to overcome the difficulties involved in upscaling the many promising initiatives of smallholder participation in global value chains, to improve the livelihoods of the poor. Indeed, relatively little experience has been gained with upscaling small successes to obtain wider impacts.
