What efforts need to be made to effectively mainstream gender in agrifood value chain projects and programmes? When can a value chain intervention be considered ‘gender-sensitive’? What actions can be implemented to address gender inequalities along the chain?
Ante las situaciones de cambio y transición experimentadas en Venezuela a distintos niveles y con diferentes alcances, la agroindustria se perfila como un elemento determinante para la transformación y la consolidación del sistema agroalimentario rural.
El objetivo del trabajo consistió en diagnosticar el subsector de la soya, diseñando y evaluando las estrategias que potencien su desarrollo en una de las regiones en México que concentran la mayor parte de la superficie y producción nacional del producto. En el año 2011 la región de El Mante albergaba cerca de la tercera parte de toda la superficie nacional y más del 20% de la producción de soya del país.
La presente investigación intenta abordar la dinámica de la cadena triguera argentina. El objetivo del trabajo consistió en recuperar analíticamente algunas experiencias desarrolladas en la última década en relación con la confi guración de nuevas formas de gobernanza en la cadena argentina de trigo. Para ello se caracterizaron las principales estructuras de gobernanza presentes en la citada cadena, explorando bajo qué condiciones surgen aquellas que responden al nuevo contexto competitivo del mercado triguero y cuáles son sus implicaciones en relación con su mejora.
En este estudio se diseñó una investigación documental y de campo, de tipo analítica basada en un muestreo aleatorio, con el objeto de analizar la cadena de valor de dichas unidades empresariales de los municipios Libertador y Campo Elías del estado Mérida.
This brief describes the activies carried out by the project: South-South knowledge transfer strategies for scaling up pro-poor bamboo livelihoods, income generation and employment creation, and environmental management in Africa. The project, funded by the European Union and IFAD and implemented by the International Bamboo and Rattan Organisation (INBAR), targeted three countries – Ethiopia, Madagascar and Tanzania. This project aims to Contributing to higher productivity and incomes, it fully conformed to the strategy of the EU-IFAD agriculture research for development programme (AR4D).
This presentation describes the process of the capacity needs assesment carried out by a consortium of organizations in Ethiopia, Nicaragua, Tanzania, Tunisia and Uganda. Starts describing the the methodology used for the assesment, then present the key finds and in the end gives some recommendations
This report describes the activities carried out by the Africa RISING-NAFAKA parnership. The Africa RISING-NAFAKA partnership project focuses on the delivery and scaling of promising interventions that enhance agricultural productivity in Tanzania. The key interventions are the promotion of climate-smart agricultural innovations, dissemination of best-bet crop management packages, rehabilitation and protection of natural resources, and reduction of food waste and spoilage.
The objective of this paper is to show how Value Chain Analysis for Development (VCA4D) applied sustainable development concept for value chain analysis to establish a manageable set of criteria allowing to provide quantitative information, which is desperately lacking in many situations in developing economies, usable by decision makers and in line with policymakers concerns and strategies (the “international development agenda”).
What are key characteristics of rural innovators? How are their experiences similar for women and men, and how are they different? To examine these questions, this study draw on individual interviews with 336 rural women and men known in their communities for trying out new things in agriculture. The data form part of 84 GENNOVATE community case studies from 19 countries. Building on study participants’ own reflections and experiences with innovation in their agricultural livelihoods, we combine variable-oriented analysis and analysis of specific individuals’ lived experience.