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Furthermore, the results also reveal that coping with shocks, coupled with access to information on market prices and warnings of unexpected events, contract farming, certification and modern irrigation technologies are the main conditioning factors to the access of the pillars of competitiveness by smallholder farmers.The promotion and implementation of a well-founded mobile phone-based information access platforms, as well as effective and efficient livelihood strategies that support smallholder farmers to access pillars of competitiveness, is of critical importance towards overcoming the major competitiveness constraints along high-value agro-food chains.","claims":[{"public_id":"cl_68f12e05d0be4a82b3bf69d5d6fdaf40","status":"active","text":"About two-thirds of smallholder AIV farmers had access to at least one pillar of competitiveness in high-value agro-food market chains, based on a multivariate probit analysis of survey data from 1232 AIV-producing 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