Description
Address five key factors in developing the team's vision of change:
What are the incentives for change and which stakeholders are those incentives targeted at?
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What is the capacity of the targeted stakeholders to adopt change at scale?
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What is the nature and characteristics of the staple food commodities value chain that enables or inhibits the vision of change?
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What are the innovations from elsewhere that can be incorporated into this vision of change?
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What is the history or current momentum within the value chain and the agriculture and food cluster in general that affect (positively or negatively) this vision of change?
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Hamakua Institute
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Challenges this Collaboration seeks to Address
Inadequate Aggregation and Processing Facilities
Hawaiʻi Island lacks sufficient aggregation and processing facilities, making it difficult for small-scale farmers to reach markets efficiently and profitably. This infrastructure gap exacerbates post-harvest loss and limits access to markets.
Staple Food Commodities