This chapter presents an overview of how value chains evolve, emerging from simple village
marketplaces to eventually, sophisticated supply chains that provide consumers with quality …

Agriculture is enjoying a new centrality in African development strategies in the last few
years and, while most local decision makers and international players seem to agree on this …

Abstract Laté Lawson-Lartego, director of the economic development unit at CARE USA,
who was responsible for developing the initial proposal to work in the dairy sector in …

Agriculture dominates the economy of the Sub-Saharan African countries. Main producers of
agricultural commodities are smallholders who depend strongly on the sector for incomes …

Value chain based approaches offer tremendous scope for market-based improvements in
production, productivity, rural economy diversification, and household incomes, but are often …

This book examines supply and value chains in African agriculture, providing both a
thorough analysis of existing practices and practical business models for future …

Globalization of food trade in agricultural commodities is in some senses the antithesis of
key concepts of sustainable agriculture. Global trade in food products distances the …

Most studies of doing business at the" bottom of the economic pyramid" focus on viewing the
poor as consumers, as micro-entrepreneurs, or as potential employees of local companies …

Aimed at policy-makers, project designers and field practitioners, this publication provides
the conceptual foundation for a new set of FAO handbooks on sustainable food value chain …

This paper presents a global assessment on how food value chains and the agri-food sector
have been considered in the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). Building on …