Chain empowerment : supporting African farmers to develop markets

Boxes viii
Diagrams ix
Foreword x
Preface xii
Acknowledgements xiv
List of contributors xv
1 Setting the scene 1 (12)
Market liberalization and integration
1 (1)
The rise of processors and retailers
2 (1)
Declining government involvement in agriculture and rural areas
2 (1)
The challenge for smallholder producers
3 (1)
Principles of empowering smallholders
4 (3)
Pro-poor value chain development
7 (1)
Purpose and readership of this book
8 (1)
Parts of the book
9 (1)
How this book was prepared
10 (3)
2 Introducing value chains 13 (20)
Supply chains
14 (1)
Supply chains vs value chains
15 (2)
Strategies for chain development with small-scale farmers
17 (3)
About the matrix
20 (3)
Where is best position for farmers?
23 (1)
Intervention strategies
24 (4)
Components of chain interventions
28 (5)
3 Chain actors 33 (22)
Setting up an outgrower scheme for pineapples in Ghana
34 (7)
Jatropha herbal soap: From project to commercial venture
41 (6)
Reviving Mozambique's cashew industry
47 (8)
4 Chain partners 55 (46)
Getting Mozambican pineapples to market
56 (6)
Forging partnerships between Tanzanian sugarcane producers and millers
62 (6)
The Cheetah story: Helping smallholders in Malawi access the paprika market
68 (7)
Honey, the liquid gold of the North Rift Valley in Kenya
75 (4)
Developing mango market linkages through farmer field schools in Kenya
79 (5)
Learning from challenges: Sunflower contract farming in northern Tanzania
84 (5)
Organic coffee from Kilimanjaro
89 (5)
Farmer field school networks in Western Kenya
94 (7)
5 Chain activity integrators 101 (20)
Stepping back to move forward: Fruit juice in NW Tanzania
102 (6)
Trading and milling to help HIV-affected households in Kenya
108 (5)
Honey and beeswax value chain development in Same, Tanzania
113 (8)
6 Chain co-owners 121 (28)
Improving shea and empowering rural women in Mali
122 (6)
Finding a niche for vanilla in Uganda
128 (5)
Bringing Kaffa forest coffee to the German market
133 (5)
Expanding dairying opportunities in Thika District, Kenya
138 (5)
Linking potato farmers to restaurants in Uganda
143 (6)
7 Strategies for chain empowerment 149 (14)
1 Upgrading as a chain actor
149 (4)
2 Developing chain partnerships
153 (3)
3 Adding value through vertical integration
156 (3)
4 Developing co-ownership over the chain
159 (4)
8 Facilitating chain development 163 (12)
Chain mapping and assessment
164 (3)
Chain engagement
167 (1)
Chain development
168 (4)
Chain monitoring and evaluation
172 (1)
Chain learning and innovation
173 (2)
9 Resources 175
SNV's local economic development approach
176 (2)
The FAIDA market linkage approach
178 (1)
CIAT's rural agro-enterprise development approach
179 (3)
CIAT's learning alliance for agro-enterprise development
182 (2)
Participatory market chain approach
184 (1)
Participatory value chains analysis
185 (2)
Value chain development
187 (1)
Value chain research
188 (2)
Participatory research methods
190 (3)
INFO-Cadena: Instruments to foster value chains
193 (2)
Publications and CD-ROMs
195 (6)
Resource organizations and websites
201 (2)
Participants' profiles
203

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