Let's first look at the problem.
A big number of these communities survive on agriculture with most resources directed towards subsistence farming of food crops like banana and a few resources for commercial agriculture both food and cash crops.
To increase competitiveness, these communities have to be producing what is to go to the market, this to happen such communities must be sensitized and educated on how the markets operate so they can be able to scale out what and how much to produce for the market to consume. Most of the community members believe that commercialization is possible only for those with access to hectares and hectares of land thus opt for subsistence agriculture and then work on commercialized farmers' plantations for a living. Efforts therefore should be directed on how these communities can maximize the available resources to achieve more for instance a storeyed poultry house could bring more output. It's possible that some community members believe that international trade is only limited to technological and industrial products meaning that what they produce (in most cases are raw materials to industries for instance sisal and milk) are only for internal markets which brings me to the point of value addition. There is a need to help traditional communities know how to add value to their output either by producing higher quality products (for instance coffee plants with access to nutrients from fertilizers and manure produce higher quality coffee beans considered to those that don't have access to the two) or by processing their output to other products that demand a higher price ( for instance the raw maize can be milled into maize flour which carries a higher price). However value addition requires knowledge of the procedures so education is important. International trade yields good results if quantity is large in numbers therefore production must be increased. Let's talk about labour versus capital intensive techniques. Most of these communities use the former, mechanization ( use of tractors) and other better practices like pest control are necessary but how many members of these communities can afford capital intensive techniques, only a few which brings me to my final point, external support be it governments or other interested parties through subsidization, tax exemptions and others. The other reason government intervention is my final point is because if all is done, there's still a need for infrastructure development like roads and training centers.
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