Value Chains for Development

A guide to developing partnerships, territorial analysis and planning together

Lundy, Mark | 2005
  • Author(s): Lundy, Mark
  • Publisher: International center for tropical agricultural (CIAT). Rural agro-enterprise development project
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agricultural product marketing, enterprise development, small enterprises, development planning, project activities, reference materials
A territorial approach for rural agro-enterprise development is laid out. Subjects include: selection and diagnosis of a territory; profiling of clients; planning for action; decision-making; evaluation and learning.

Design of strategies to increase the competitiveness of smallholder chains : field manual

Lundy, Mark | 2004
  • Author(s): Lundy, Mark
  • Publisher: International center for tropical agriculture (CIAT). Rural agro-enterprise development project
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agribusiness, development strategies, small farms, competition, guidelines
Guidelines for increasing the competitiveness of small-scale rural producers and for linking them to chains, including: chain selection, market analysis, participatory chain analysis, critical point analysis, negotiation, and monitoring.

Increasing the competitiveness of market chains for smallholder producers

Lundy, Mark | 2004
  • Author(s): Lundy, Mark
  • Publisher: International center for tropical agriculture (CIAT). Rural agro-enterprise development project
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agricultural product marketing, small farms, agribusiness, rural areas, small enterprises, competition
This training manual explains how to design an agro-enterprise support strategy for increasing the competitiveness of a selected market chain and how to conduct a critical points analysis.

Learning alliances : an approach for building multi-stakeholder innovation systems

Lundy, Mark and Gottret, Marيa Verَnica | [2006]
  • Author(s): Lundy, Mark and Gottret, Marيa Verَnica
  • Publisher: CIAT. Rural agroenterprise development (RAeD)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: rural development, enterprise development, agriproduct processing, capacity building, communication process, co-operation between organizations, latin america, andean region
CIAT's Rural Agro-enterprise Development Project uses learning alliances to engage multiple stakeholders with multi-layered sources of knowledge in processes of innovation to promote increased effectiveness in rural entrepreneurial development.

Promoting value chains in Central America : the experience of CIAT

Lundy, Mark and Meyer-Stamer, Jorg | [2007]
  • Author(s): Lundy, Mark and Meyer-Stamer, Jorg
  • Publisher: LEDcast
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agribusiness, small farms, agricultural product marketing, purchasing, private enterprises, capacity building, latin america, central america
Members of the Agribusiness Group at the Center for Tropical Agriculture talk about CIAT's \"learning community\" around value chain development and what often goes wrong in value chain initiatives.
 

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