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Scaling Social Franchises: Lessons Learned From Farm Shop, Kevin Mckague, Farouk Jiwa, Karim Harji, Obidimma Ezezika
Scaling Social Franchises: Lessons Learned From Farm Shop, Kevin Mckague, Farouk Jiwa, Karim Harji, Obidimma Ezezika
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Background
The challenge of enhancing food security and livelihoods for smallholder farmers has been a significant concern in the agricultural development field. To increase farm productivity and enable smallholder farmers to rise out of poverty, several organizations have initiated social franchising business models to create sustainable social enterprises. Social franchising has recently gathered increased interest in lower-income countries for its potential to address social and ecological issues, support local entrepreneurs, and reach financial sustainability to allow for scaling through market forces. Social franchising combines the principles of business franchising (standardized systems and other supports that reduce risk for the entrepreneur) …