Piloting a fresh fruit and vegetables market to deliver high quality, safe food products : Reflections and lessons learned

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Piloting a fresh fruit and vegetables market to deliver high quality, safe food products; Reflections and lessons learned. Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation, Wageningen University & Research. Report WCDI-20-117/3R Report 016. Wageningen. 3R Kenya Project The 3R Kenya (Resilient, Robust, Reliable-From Aid to Trade) project is a learning initiative supported under the Agriculture and Food and Nutrition Security (FNS) programme of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. 3R Kenya seeks to assess evidence and lessons from FNS and other related programmes that support competitive, market-led models in spurring agricultural development. It focuses on the aquaculture, dairy and horticulture sectors. 3R Kenya is executed at a time when the Dutch government's bilateral relations in Kenya are transitioning from a focus on Aid to a focus on Trade to enhance the development of agri-food sectors. Through evidence generation and stakeholder dialogue, 3R seeks to contribute to an understanding of effective conditions for sustainable inclusive trade for transforming agri-food sectors to be resilient, robust and reliable. 3Rs: Resilient: dynamic and adaptive capacities that enable agents and systems to adequately respond to changing circumstances Robust: systematic interactions between agents that enable them to adjust to uncertainties within the boundaries of their initial configuration Reliable: the ability of a system or component to perform its functions under changing conditions for a specified period of time, to create opportunities for (inter)national trade.