GCARD2. Breakout session P3.2 Turning Innovations into Market Opportunities. Innovations from the Empowering Smallholder Farmers in the Markets (ESFIM) Programme

This brief on the session of "Partnerships for livelihood impacts" which was held during the the GCARD Second Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (Punta Del Este, Uruguay, 29 October – 1 November 2012), discusses the Empowering Smallholder Farmers in the Markets (ESFIM) programme. ESFIM sought to generate demand-driven research supportive of the policy priorities and activities undertaken by farmers’ organizations that strengthens the advocacy capacities of national farmers’ organisations. This five year programme (2007-2012) was undertaken by AGRINATURA in partnership with ten national farmer organisations (NFO) .