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Value Chains for Development

Common framework on market-oriented agricultural advisory services

| 2008
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Neuchâtel group
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agribusiness, advisory services, small farms, small enterprises, market access, income
Pro-poor MOAAS (market-oriented agricultural advisory services) are knowledge services which assist smallholder and other value-chain actors to get better access to markets and secure benefits from commercialization.

Value chains for broad-based development : international conference, 30 May-1 June 2007, Berlin

| 2007
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Federal ministry for economic cooperation and development (BMZ) [etc.]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agribusiness, economic development, poverty alleviation, trade facilitation
The conceptual progress made with value chain promotion is assessed. Working group topics include: (1) value chain policy and promotion; (2) market development; and (3) relevance for the poor.

Making markets work for the poor in Eastern and Southern Africa, ComMark seminar, 12-14 March 2007

| 2007
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Donor comittee for enterprise development
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: markets, poverty alleviation, agribusiness, international trade, globalization, advisory services, aids, east africa, southern africa
Proceedings of a 3-day conference on themes such as factor markets, the role of business, international trade and globalization, agricultural value chains, service markets, HIV-AIDS, and local area development.

Market access services going commercial : five key questions

| 2007
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Lightfoot consulting etc.]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agribusiness, purchasing, small farms, market access, advisory services
The key questions concerning the emergence of commercial market access companies serving small farmers are discussed.

Gender sensitive value chain analysis (GSVCA) guide

| 2007
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: International labour organization (ILO). Job creation and enterprise development programme
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: women in development, small enterprises, reference materials, gender equality, project formulation
The GSVCA guide takes an explicitly gendered approach and applies principles of participatory approaches to VCA to improve the effectiveness, equity and outreach of development interventions in the SME sector.
 

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