Consultant for Online Community and Marketplace for Small Producers Assessment

FTL is looking for well-established service providers to conduct an in-depth study that will identify new market linkage initiatives that may impact revenue generation for our small producers and increase their resilience to market disruptions, such as the ones we have been living for the past few years. Lack of information and of robust distribution channels severely hamper the capacity for small producers to access markets today, and render them very sensitive to disruptions. FTL intends to study the feasibility of one such solution, which is the establishment of an Online Community and Marketplace of small producers with the aim of increasing their market knowledge and increasing their market opportunities.

The objective of the community is to identify and implement local solutions for challenges faced by the members of the community. In this case, small producers face the same challenges when it comes to access to useful market information or accessing new market channels such as direct sales to consumers. The platform will increase access to information and favor collaboration between the members.