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INNOVATION FOR INCLUSIVE VALUE-CHAIN DEVELOPMENT

Moving from Outputs,

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bringing solutions to bottlenecks and tools developed to focus on farmer associations or any horizontal coordination mechanism

Outcomes to impact!

VALUE CHAINS IMPACT PATHWAYS

Solutions to bottlenecks and constraints

Measuring impact at pilot level of solutions

Linking with partners to scale up

Capacity building and core team hubs

Impact

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Featured tool

Prototype Guide for Integrating Gender into PMCA

The Prototype guide for integrating gender into the Participatory Market Chain Approach (PMCA) seeks to build understanding on gender issues into value chain interventions and to create the capacities of PMCA's facilitators in applying gender analysis and developing gender-sensitive strategies to promote equitable opportunities for men and women to access to and benefit from the PMCA intervention.

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Value chain financing: evidence from Zambia on smallholder access to finance for mechanization

Smallholder farmers in Zambia comprise 85 per cent of the farmers’ population. Such farmers are regarded as not creditworthy and furthermore their agricultural productivity could be improved. The aim of this paper is to present recent evidence on value chain financing (VCF) as a framework to increase access to agricultural finance for Zambian smallholder farmers. Such financing will act as an enabler to mechanize and, in turn, might improve productivity.

Standards

Safe Quality Food (SQF)

Today’s consumers are more educated about the food they’re providing their families and requiring more information about food quality. One link in the food chain does not get rattled without it affecting the next link. Customers expect more from their retailers and food service providers, who in turn expect more from their suppliers.

Tools for farmers

Agro-Hub

AGRO-HUB was founded in 2009 after an observation that Cameroon’s agriculture lags because of an abject lack in marketing and distribution infrastructure.
Marketing and Sales cannot happen without the exchange of information, yet it is still difficult to access relevant authoritative content on agriculture in Cameroon.

Featured members

Okike, Iheanacho

Iheanacho (Acho) Okike is the country program manager for Nigeria where he coordinates ILRI’s research activities. The main focus of his work has been intensification of crop-livestock systems, livestock marketing and, more recently, control of avian influenza. Acho holds a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree (1980) and a PhD in Agricultural Economics (2000).