Value Chains for Development

The Expert centre for sustainable business and development cooperation

| 2007-
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  • Publisher: The Expert centre for sustainable business and development cooperation (ECSAD)
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  • Keywords: research centres, enterprise development, economic development, development assistance, information exchange
ECSAD is active in: (1) introducing a business perspective to development research; (2) training and consulting; (3) building partnership between governments, international organizations, multinationals, small enterprises, and NGOs.

Linkages and value chains working group

| 2007-
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  • Publisher: Donor committee for enterprise development
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  • Keywords: purchasing, co-operation between organizations, business enterprises, small enterprises, poverty alleviation, development strategies
This international working group held a scoping meeting in 2006, commissioned a study on donor approaches to supporting pro-poor value chains, and organized a workshop on engaging the private sector.

Financial services

| 2007-
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  • Publisher: ICCO
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  • Keywords: microcredit, financial institutions, rural development, agricultural product marketing, small farms
This wiki of ICCO's Programme Financial Services contains two main elements: supporting (micro)finance sector, and developing financial instruments. It provides links to reports and discussions carried out under this programme.

EPOPA newsletter / SIDA programme export promotion of organic products from Africa

| 2006- .
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  • Publisher: EPOPA
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  • Keywords: export promotion, organic farming, east africa, tanzania, uganda
The EPOPA newsletter presents project news, other news, and events in relation to exports of organic products from Africa. Currently EPOPA projects are carried out in Tanzania and Uganda.

Fresh insights / 'Small-scale producers and standards in agrifood supply chains' project, DFID/IIED/NRI

| 2006- .
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  • Publisher: IIED
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  • Keywords: agribusiness, vegetables, export promotion, small farms, standards, food contamination, environmental aspects, acp, africa south of sahara, eu
Fresh Insights is a series of peer-reviewed, technical working papers of DFID's “Small-scale producers and standards in agrifood supply chains” project, dealing with vegetable exports from Africa to the EU.
 

About this portal

The Value Chains for Development portal provides access to selected free, full-text electronic documents on pro-poor value chains.