Bill Vorley

Bill was principal researcher, Shaping Sustainable Markets; team leader, small-scale and informal enterprise at IIED until 2016

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Bill Vorley is team leader for IIED's work on small-scale and informal enterprise, with 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.

Recent publications

Bill Vorley

Current work

Recent publications

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

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

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

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

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

Pagos por servicios ecosistémicos en la agricultura de pequeña escala: lecciones de la trayectoria de aprendizaje de Hivos-IIED

Bill Vorley's blog posts

Reflections on ten years of rating big brands for sustainability

Resilient Dynamism? An informal word with leaders meeting in Davos

Has agriculture been a winner in the economic downturn?

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Bill Vorley

Current work

Recent publications

Bill Vorley's blog posts