http://www.netsquared.org/tags/inclusive-business share stories about how web-based technologies are impacting people’s lives build toolkits for nonprofits around the globe to help extend their good work en-US http://www.netsquared.org/blog/paolalira/products-design-sustainable-agriculture <p>The main problems in Peru as poverty, low productivity, inadequate infrastructure and poorly integrated markets are often exacerbated by an under-developed agro-industrial sector. Little attention has usually been paid to the value chain through which agricultural commodities and products reach the final consumers in Peru and abroad.</p> <p> According to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO, 2007), while high-income countries add US$180 of value by processing one tonne of agricultural products, developing countries generate only US$40. Moreover, while 98 percent of agricultural production in high-income countries undergoes industrial processing, barely 30 percent is processed in developing countries.</p><p><a href="http://www.netsquared.org/blog/paolalira/products-design-sustainable-agriculture">read more</a></p> http://www.netsquared.org/blog/paolalira/products-design-sustainable-agriculture#comments inclusive business sustainability sustainable agriculture Thu, 15 May 2008 16:56:35 -0400 paolalira 11149 at http://www.netsquared.org