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Bill Vorley

Senior associate, Shaping Sustainable Markets

Bill Vorley was former principal researcher, Shaping Sustainable Markets; team leader, small-scale and informal enterprise at IIED until 2016.
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Bill Vorley has particular expertise in agribusiness, agrifood systems, informal markets, smallholders and inclusive business. He is currently researching small-scale farming in formal and informal markets, market structures and the future of family farming and sustainable commodity production and trade.

Expertise

Agrifood systems, agribusiness, smallholders, trade, inclusive business, informal markets.

Before IIED

Director, Food and Agriculture Program, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Minneapolis, USA.

Current work

Research into small-scale farming in formal and informal markets; market structure and the future of family farming; inclusive business; sustainable commodity production and trade; 'Change initiative' on consumption, urbanisation and rural transformation.

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Languages: English, English

Recent publications

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Agency and advocacy in the food systems of the majority: Food for thought from the Sustainable Diets for All programme

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Chinese investments and Africa’s small-scale producers: disruptions and opportunities

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Citizen-generated evidence for a more sustainable and healthy food system

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Contract farming and informality: drivers and governance responses in Zambia and Zimbabwe

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Informal trade in cotton: Understanding drivers and working towards solutions in Zambia and Zimbabwe

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Café y créditos de carbono para productores de pequeña escala: ¿las finanzas de carbono pueden promover la producción más limpia de café en Nicaragua?

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Bill Vorley's blog posts

A woman serving food at a street stall

Common cause with people in the food systems of the majority

Blog, Jun 2020
A food vendor is surrounded by people in a busy street

The two faces of Bandung’s street food: recreation and reliance

Blog, Aug 2019
Chinese supermarket. Photo: Simon Lim

Reflections on ten years of rating big brands for sustainability

Blog, Feb 2013
Traders take matooke to market

Resilient Dynamism? An informal word with leaders meeting in Davos

Blog, Jan 2013

Has agriculture been a winner in the economic downturn?

Blog, Jun 2010
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