Value Chains for Development

Developing capacity for agricultural market chain innovation : experience with the 'PMCA' in Uganda

Horton, Douglas | 2010

• Author(s): Horton, Douglas
• Publisher: Wiley
• Pages: 367--389
• Keywords: agricultural product marketing, small farms, development models, capacity building, south america, uganda

This paper outlines how the Participatory Market Chain Approach (PMCA) was developed in the Andes and its main features. It then describes the strategies used to introduce the PMCA to Uganda. Its successful introduction requires an intensive capacity-development process among chain actors.

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Private standards, small farmers and donor policy : EUREPGAP in Kenya

Humphrey, John | 2008

• Author(s): Humphrey, John
• Publisher: University of Sussex. Institute of development studies (IDS)
• Pages: --
• Keywords: agricultural product marketing, small farms, horticulture, export promotion, rules and regulations, quality control, eu, europe, africa south of sahara, kenya

The need to focus on certification as a value chain co-ordination issue in development efforts to meet the EUREPGAP private voluntary standard for export horticulture from Kenya is outlined.

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Private standards, small farmers and donor policy : EuroGAP in Kenya

Humphrey, John | 2008

• Author(s): Humphrey, John
• Publisher: USAID]
• Pages: --
• Keywords: agricultural product marketing, small farms, market access, eu, standards, import restrictions, development assistance, africa south of sahara, east africa, kenya

In response to challenges of EUREPGAP to Kenyan smallholders, donors should: analyse value chain linkages; consider not intervening at all; and, look carefully at the potential employment effects.

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Shaping value chains for development : global value chains in agribusiness

Humphrey, John | 2005

• Author(s): Humphrey, John
• Publisher: Deutsche Gesellschaft für technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)
• Pages: --
• Keywords: agribusiness, development strategies, development assistance, small farms, market access, globalization

Analysis from a global value chain perspective of the new challenges that arise in the areas of markets and competition and also from increasingly important standards in regulating trade.

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Upgrading in global value chains

Humphrey, John | 2004

• Author(s): Humphrey, John
• Publisher: International labour office (ILO)
• Pages: --
• Keywords: industrial procurement, globalization, enterprise development, developing countries, development policy, market access, technological change, capacity building

Discusses which forms of insertion in the global economy facilitate or obstruct the potential for acquiring technological capabilities and market access and which policy frameworks enhance upgrading opportunities.

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