COMLIVE provided CARE/DFID with a unique opportunity to strategically enhance a self-sustaining business model for rural development, linking private sector markets, organic agricultural production, alternative livelihoods and natural resource management in a way that could effectively address the core needs of poor, vulnerable and food insecure families.
Community Markets for Food Security and Alternative Livelihoods: A Case Study
- Countries: South Africa, Zambia
- Published: January 2009
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