Agricultural Value Chains for Development (Learning Lessons, #20)

Designing projects and programs supporting the engagement of smallholder farmers and agribusinesses in increasingly dynamic, but complex agricultural value chains are becoming more challenging as market requirements and lifestyles change, and government policies shift.

Government interest in the potential for value chains to develop agriculture and contribute to food security has been rising since 2008's global food crisis. Agricultural value chains, when the poor and other marginal groups p...