Innovation for inclusive value-chain development: Successes and challenges

Governments, nongovernmental organizations, donors, and the private sector have increasingly embraced value-chain development (VCD) for stimulating economic growth and combating rural poverty. Innovation for Inclusive Value-Chain Development: Successes and Challenges helps to fill the current gap in systematic knowledge about how well VCD has performed, related trade-offs or undesired effects, and which combinations of VCD elements are most likely to reduce poverty and deliver on overall development goals.

This book uses case studies to examine a range of VCD experiences. Approaching the subject from various angles, it looks at new linkages to markets and the role of farmer organizations and contract farming in raising productivity and access to markets, the minimum assets requirement to participate in VCD, the role of multi-stakeholder platforms in VCD, and how to measure and identify successful VCD interventions. The book also explores the challenges livestock-dependent people face; how urbanization and advancing technologies affect linkages; ways to increase gender inclusion and economic growth; and the different roles various types of platforms play in VCD.

• PART 1 Innovation for Inclusive Value-Chain Development: Highlights [Download] Douglas Horton, Jason Donovan, André Devaux, and Maximo Torero  
• PART 2 Challenges and Approaches for Inclusive Value-Chain Development: Introduction [Download] Jason Donovan, Dietmar Stoian, and Mark Lundy  
• Chapter 1 Guides for Value-Chain Development:A Comparative Review [Download] Jason Donovan, Steve Franzel, Marcelo Cunha, Amos Gyau, and Dagmar Mithöfer
• Chapter 2 Value-Chain Development for Rural Poverty Reduction: A Reality Check and a Warning [Download] Dietmar Stoian, Jason Donovan, John Fisk, and Michelle F. Muldoon
• Chapter 3 Changing Asset Endowments and Smallholder Participation in Higher-Value Markets: Evidence from Certified-Coffee Producers in Nicaragua [Download] Jason Donovan and Nigel Poole
• Chapter 4 Contract Farming in Developing Countries: Theory, Practice, and Policy Implications [Download] Nicholas Minot and Bradley Sawyer
• PART 3 Integrating Agricultural Innovation and Inclusive Value-Chain Development: Introduction [Download] André Devaux, Claudio Velasco, and Matthias Jager
• Chapter 5 Enhancing Innovation in Livestock Value Chains through Networks: Lessons from Fodder Innovation Case Studies in Developing Countries [Download] Seife Ayele, Alan Duncan, Asamoah Larbi, and Truong Tan Khanh
• Chapter 6 Transformation of Smallholder Beef-Cattle Production in Vietnam [Download] Werner Stür, Truong Tan Khanh, and Alan Duncan
• Chapter 7 Collective Action for Market-Chain Innovation in the Andes [Download] André Devaux, Douglas Horton, Claudio Velasco, Graham Thiele, Gastón López, Thomas Bernet, Iván Reinoso, and Miguel Ordinola
• Chapter 8 Multistakeholder Platforms for Linking Small Farmers to Value Chains: Evidence from the Andes [Download] Graham Thiele, André Devaux, Iván Reinoso, Hernán Pico, Fabián Montesdeoca, Manuel Pumisacho, Jorge Andrade-Piedra, Claudio Velasco, Paola Flores, Raúl Esprella, Alice Thomann, Kurt Manrique, and Doug Horton
• Chapter 9 Unraveling the Role of Innovation Platforms in Supporting Coevolution of Innovation: Contributions and Tensions in a Smallholder Dairy-Development Program [Download] Catherine W. Kilelu, Laurens Klerkx, and Cees Leeuwis
• Chapter 10 Dealing with Critical Challenges in African Innovation Platforms: Lessons for Facilitation [Download] Kees Swaans, Beth Cullen, André van Rooyen, Adewale Adekunle, Hlami Ngwenya, Zelalem Lema, and Suzanne Nederlof
• PART 4 Evaluating inclusive value-chain development [Download] Maximo Torero
• Chapter 11 Impact of Third-Party Enforcement of Contracts in Agricultural Markets—A Field Experiment in Vietnam [Download] Christoph Saenger, Maximo Torero, and Matin Qaim
• Chapter 12 Linking Smallholders to the New Agricultural Economy: The Case of the Plataformas de Concertación in Ecuador [Download] Romina Cavatassi, Mario González-Flores, Paul Winters, Jorge Andrade-Piedra, Patricio Espinosa, and Graham Thiele
• Chapter 13 Lapses, Infidelities, and Creative Adaptations: Lessons from Evaluation of a Participatory Market Development Approach in the Andes [Download] Douglas Horton, Emma Rotondo, Rodrigo Paz Ybarnegaray, Guy Hareau, André Devaux, and Graham Thiele
• Chapter 14 Using Quantitative Tools to Measure Gender Differences Within Value Chains [Download] Lucia Madrigal and Maximo Torero