The analysis of value and supply chains examines how resource poor producers and intermediaries capture value for a range of local, regional and globally-traded agricultural and fisheries commodities.
We are developing new techniques for understanding the options available to the poor in urban and rural areas. This may involve a range of strategies, from horizontal coordination to vertical contractualisation and product and process upgrading. Central to these strategies is the need to minimise risk and ensure that cash income is not being increased at the expense of access to non-traded resources.
Our experience is focused on Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia and includes a broad range of commodities, from high value niche products, to the traditional tropical commodities, and to the basic staple goods for which vertical value chains are at an early stage of evolution.
