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| |  A product (or a service) is generally created in a process linking primary producers, input suppliers, buyers, processors, sellers and consumers in a value chain. Value chain analysis and promotion attempts to optimise any given value chain to meet market requirements, by harmonising the value chain actors, improving quality and productivity. This increases the competitiveness of the product against similar products, allows niche markets to be targeted and creates growth and new employment.
Typically the value chain approach involves identifying sub sectors and value chains to be promoted and then analysing and mapping the selected chain or sector. Following this various strategies for improvement may be identified such as upgrading markets or storage, organising producer groups to scale up supplies, linking input suppliers to producers or producers to buyers, identifying value adding activities or technologies which lower costs. How such advice or guidance can be delivered is an issue for policy-makers. | |
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| | | Title | Agricultural Value Chain Finance | | Author/ Editor | Rodolfo Quirós | | Content Language(s) | Spanish; English | |
| Type of Document |  Book | | Abstract / Description | Agriculture is increasing linked from the "farm to the fork" through supply chain linkages, each of which add value as the inputs are supplied and the products are produced, harvested, processed, transported, packaged and sold. Finance and other support services are very important. Value chain finance covers the whole range of financial approaches and products that are used both within the value chain as well as the finance which is available because of the existence of integrated value chains. New financial approaches and technologies have been linked to value chains which increase the access and efficiency of finance to both users and providers of the finance as well as reducing the risk to both. Based upon a Latin American level conference on Value Chain Finance organized by FAO with Academia de Centroamerica, RUTA and SERFIRURAL, this document provides a well-writen overview of the concepts and then provides many successful case examples of diverse products and services of value chain finance in Latin America. It concludes with learnings and messages which are applicable for financial institutions, governments, agribusiness leaders, donors and development organizations. | | Keywords | AGRICULTURAL VALUE CHAIN FINANCE; AGRIBUSINESS FINANCE; AGRICULTURAL FINANCE; VALUE CHAINS; AGRICULTURAL VALUE CHAINS | | Country | LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN | | Date of Publication/Issue | 2007 | | Download | | |
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| Publisher | FAO and Academia de Centroamerica | | Publication Location | San Jose, Costa Rica and Rome, Italy | | Number of Pages | 166 pp. | | Edition | English and Spanish Editions | | ISBN | 978-9977-21-073-5 | |
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