New development of agro-food small business linkages between Southeast Asia and Western AfricaFootnote¹

1. This paper is based on a research project funded by the Entrepreneurship Scientific Network, Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF, The Francophone University Agency, Paris/Montreal). The author would like to thank for additional support the Geneva Asia Society, Geneva, Switzerland, the Taiwanese Development Cooperation Agency, Taipei, Taiwan, and the three academic partner institutions having jointly conducted the project, namely the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland), the Franco-Vietnamese Centre of Management (National Economic University of Hanoi, Vietnam), and the Department of Agro-Food Technologies (DTA-IRSA/CNRST, National Centre for Research, Science and Technology, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso). The views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the views of these institutions.

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