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| Value chains, linkages and service markets: Syntheses, conferences and more |
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| Value chains: Some key links |
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| Funding agency(ies) | Department for International Development (DFID), GTZ, SDC, USAID, World Bank Group |
| Date completed | January 2008 |
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Description
The aim of this entry is to link visitors to some current events and documents on value chains - a burgeoning field. While value chain analysis has received much attention (see link to that entry, below), there is less consensus about how systemic the subsequent interventions should be. In other words, the value chain analysis may help practitioners to understand the system, but the challenge remains: how to enhance the operation of that system in ways that are both self-sustaining and pro-poor.
The most recent addition to this entry is a link to Moving Towards Competitiveness: A Value-Chain Approach, published by FIAS in 2007. It includes suggestions for value chain mapping, benchmarking and policy reform.
From the agricultural extension community of practice comes www.regoverningmarkets.org. SDC's Community of Practice on Value Chains in Rural Development can be found at www.sdc-valuechains.ch; the synthesis on embedded services in value chains is included below.
The Alliance on Building Global Food Chain Partnerships (University of Illinois, World Bank, USAID and others) has posts relating to various recent conferences, at www.globalfoodchainpartnerships.org.
The Donor Committee for Small Enterprise Development also has an emerging Working Group on Value Chains, which you can find here.
In late 2004, GTZ's Trade Programme compiled a list of organizations using a value chain approach in development cooperation. The study was updated in 2005 to update links, gather new information on non agricultural fields and integrate institutions working in different sectors relevant to development cooperation. The 2005 results, available below, briefly profile each organizations' value chain activities.
KIT, Faida and IIRR have published a book of strategies and cases for using value chain development to help small famers in Africa. It is available here. KIT has also now started a website on "Value Chains for Development.".
Agrifood Consulting has done a number of value chain studies in Asia and Africa as well as consulted on a number of VC projects. Reports can be found here.
USAID has published a short brief on the Value Chain Approach to Economic Growth with Poverty Reduction available below. More info on their approach is available on the MicroLinks website. USAID has also published a value chain trainig curriculum available from the link below.
GTZ conducted an international conference on Value Chains for Broad Based Development 30 May - 1 June, 2007. Documentation can be found at the link below with details at the conference website. GTZ has also produced the ValueLinks Manual available here.
AGEG's July 2007 Newsletter, available below, has a wealth of information and links on value chain development.
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