Selected Citations of the 3rd Edition
Guides for Value-Chain Development: A Comparative Review
Jason Donovan, Steve Franzel, Marcelo Cunha, Amos Gyau, and Dagmar Mithöfer
Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies 5 (1): 2–23 (2015)
This paper reviews 11 guides for value-chain analysis and development. It compares the guides’ concepts, objectives, and methods and identifies strengths, weaknesses, and gaps. The assessment characterizes the state of the art for designing interventions and interactions that seek to build value chains with smallholders. This review paper includes the third edition of the toolbook within the set of reviewed guides and makes a number of good suggestions for improvement, which is being taken into account when preparing the 4th edition.
Review of guidelines and manuals for value chain analysis for agricultural and forest products
World Agroforestry Centre Occasional Paper 17 (2011)
Eddah Nang’ole, Dagmar Mithöfer and Steven Franzel
This paper gives an overview of guidelines and manuals for value chain analysis in agriculture and forestry. The publications were compiled through web search using key words such as value chain manuals, value chain guidelines, value chain handbooks . Information was also gathered by requesting key informants to provide any guidelines they knew of. The value chain concept has been applied in different ways by different organizations. Thus, this paper starts by reviewing the commonalities and differences in the definition of value chain and other relevant terms.
It then lists 32 guidelines and manuals, breaking them into four groups: (1) those that deal with all four stages of value chain analysis, (2) those focusing on the first two stages, appraisal and design, (3) those that focus on forest products, and (4) those examining special topics cutting across the other guidelines such as collective marketing, farmer-trader relations or gender analysis. For each guideline or manual, there is a brief overview of the contents, the specific survey instruments, case studies and the web address or other means of accessing it. The review paper includes the 3rd Edition of the Making Value Chains Work Better for the Poor Toolbook and gives some useful suggestions for improvement.
Legese, G., Haile, A., Duncan, A.J., Dessie, T., Gizaw, S. and Rischkowsky, B. 2014. Sheep and goat value chains in Ethiopia: A synthesis of opportunities and constraints. ILRI Project Report. Nairobi, Kenya: International Livestock Research Institute.
Gereffi, Gary, 2015. "Global value chains, development and emerging economies," MERIT Working Papers 047, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).
Guides for Value-Chain Development: A Comparative Review
Jason Donovan, Steve Franzel, Marcelo Cunha, Amos Gyau, and Dagmar Mithöfer
Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies 5 (1): 2–23 (2015)
This paper reviews 11 guides for value-chain analysis and development. It compares the guides’ concepts, objectives, and methods and identifies strengths, weaknesses, and gaps. The assessment characterizes the state of the art for designing interventions and interactions that seek to build value chains with smallholders. This review paper includes the third edition of the toolbook within the set of reviewed guides and makes a number of good suggestions for improvement, which is being taken into account when preparing the 4th edition.
Review of guidelines and manuals for value chain analysis for agricultural and forest products
World Agroforestry Centre Occasional Paper 17 (2011)
Eddah Nang’ole, Dagmar Mithöfer and Steven Franzel
This paper gives an overview of guidelines and manuals for value chain analysis in agriculture and forestry. The publications were compiled through web search using key words such as value chain manuals, value chain guidelines, value chain handbooks . Information was also gathered by requesting key informants to provide any guidelines they knew of. The value chain concept has been applied in different ways by different organizations. Thus, this paper starts by reviewing the commonalities and differences in the definition of value chain and other relevant terms.
It then lists 32 guidelines and manuals, breaking them into four groups: (1) those that deal with all four stages of value chain analysis, (2) those focusing on the first two stages, appraisal and design, (3) those that focus on forest products, and (4) those examining special topics cutting across the other guidelines such as collective marketing, farmer-trader relations or gender analysis. For each guideline or manual, there is a brief overview of the contents, the specific survey instruments, case studies and the web address or other means of accessing it. The review paper includes the 3rd Edition of the Making Value Chains Work Better for the Poor Toolbook and gives some useful suggestions for improvement.
Legese, G., Haile, A., Duncan, A.J., Dessie, T., Gizaw, S. and Rischkowsky, B. 2014. Sheep and goat value chains in Ethiopia: A synthesis of opportunities and constraints. ILRI Project Report. Nairobi, Kenya: International Livestock Research Institute.
Gereffi, Gary, 2015. "Global value chains, development and emerging economies," MERIT Working Papers 047, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).