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Climate Risks, Small Scale Farmers and Business: The Case of the Tanzanian Maize Sector

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2018-01

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Winter, Simon, and Kyunghwa Rebecca Jang. “Climate Risks, Small Scale Farmers and Business: The Case of the Tanzanian Maize Sector.” Corporate Responsibility Initiative Report No. 77. Cambridge, MA: John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, January 2018.

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The paper aims to assess climate risks along the maize value chain in Tanzania and to suggest potential solutions for businesses to address those risks. While there are previous studies about the impact of climate change on small scale farmers, few of them have focused specifically on how businesses that source from smallholders are likely to be affected or may need to change their practices accordingly. This literature is particularly thin when focusing on businesses that source indirectly from smallholders through intermediary aggregators, traders and processors, where the end buyers often have no visibility at all into who their producers are and what is happening in their lives.

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