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Value Chains for Development

Agro-value chain analysis and development : the UNIDO approach : a staff working paper

| 2009
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: United nations industrial development organization (UNIDO)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agricultural product marketing, development projects, project preparation, developing countries
This publication aims to promote a pragmatic scrutiny of value chain realities and opportunities in order to single out areas of possible performance improvement and consequently design custom-tailored projects to be supported jointly by donors and development partners.

Background to the Regoverning markets programme

| 2008
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: International institute for environment and development (IIED)]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agribusiness, development research, agricultural product marketing, market access, small farms
Describes the Regoverning Markets programme and presents evidence of changes underway. Agrifood market restructuring is occurring rapidly in most countries, but this is not always matched by farm-level restructuring.

Finance in value chain analysis : a synthesis paper

| 2008
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: U.S. Agency for international development (USAID)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: enterprise development, purchasing, small enterprises, finance
The value chain analysis approach is summarized and case studies developed under the AMAP (Accelerated Microenterprise Advancement Project)-(FSKG (Financial Services Knowledge Generation) projects are used in a discussion of the analysis of finance in a value chain context.

AgroFair Oké fair trade fruit

| 2008
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: AgroFair
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agricultural product marketing, fruit, social justice, international trade, purchasing, quality control, latin america, costa rica, ecuador
AgroFair bananas are fair-trade certified bananas (Ecuador) that offer farmers or workers a better life, both financially and socially. The product range now includes citrus, mango, and pineapple (Costa Rica).

Contract farming in the world's poultry industry

| 2008
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: GRAIN
  • Pages: 12--17
  • Keywords: agricultural production, contracts, innovations, poultry, export marketing, agribusiness, brazil, thailand
This article examines contract farming in the poultry sector of two leading export-driven producing countries: Brazil (2.8 million t of chicken exports) and Thailand (1.4 million t of chicken production).
 

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