Value Chains for Development

Innovative certification systems : creating space for local communities

| [2012]
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Both ENDS
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agricultural product marketing, standards, market access
Certification gives sustainable farming a distinct identity and credibility and improves market access. It increases farmers’ confidence and consumers’ trust in production systems and products. The brochure discusses certification, gives examples and outlines what Both Ends can offer in this field.

Understanding facilitation

| [2011]
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: USAID
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agricultural product marketing, project preparation, development projects
The objectives of facilitation are to strengthen the ability of value chains to grow over time, beyond the scope of a project, and provide more widespread benefits, especially to the poor. Key principles for facilitation, tactics for implementation and methods to measure results, are presented.

Like them or hate them, they are here to stay! : the important role of traders in the agri-chain and how to support them

| [2011]
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Agri-ProFocus
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agricultural product marketing, merchants, domestic trade
There is a need for farmers, traders and other chain actors to build fairer and better working relations for their mutual benefit and the benefit of their buyers and consumers. All players need to be more transparent and respectful in their dealings to each other as well as to their competitors.

Southeast Asian regional conference on agriculttural value chain financing : conference proceedings

| [2009]
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Asian productivity organization (APO)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agricultural product marketing, financing, small farms, microcredit, latin america, south asia, south east asia
The key messages of the Southeast Asia Regional Conference on Value Chain Financing held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in December 12-14, 2007.

Selection of industries in the value chain framework

| [2008]
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: United States agency for international development (USAID)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: enterprise development, small enterprises, purchasing, project identification, guidelines, sustainable development, poverty alleviation, economic growth
This briefing paper provides guidance on value chain selection, a process which aims to identify value chains that will maximize the impact of donor funds. It precedes value chain analysis.
 

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