Download or read book Smallholder Dairy Value Chain Interventions written by Ida F. Rademaker and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Participatory smallholder dairy value chain development in Fogera woreda Ethiopia Experiences from IPMS project interventions written by and published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD). This book was released on with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Smallholders Dairy Development written by Dawit Weldemariam and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the importance of dairy development to nutrition, health and income of rural communities, smallholder dairy performance is very low in the rural areas of northern Ethiopia. To enhance the performance of smallholders dairy development, an integrated and knowledge based interventions along the dairy value chain framework has been tested and promoted. Hence, a field study was conducted to assess the changes in response to the integrated interventions along the value chain of dairy production-marketing systems and to draw lessons for scaling out and up purposes. The changes associated with the interventions were systematically captured using household level surveys, key informant interviews and secondary sources. In the survey, key parameters and indicator variables that can indicate the changes in dairy performance along the value chain framework were collected and analyzed. The lessons and experiences gained give an insight into the approaches, procedures and processes of knowledge based interventions, and response monitoring in smallholder dairy enterprise. The lessons captured in smallholder dairy development are useful to development and research workers in the tropics.

Download or read book Interventions for inclusive and efficient value chains Insights from CGIAR research written by de Brauw, Alan and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Efforts to promote the development of agricultural value chains are a common element of strategies to stimulate economic growth in low-income countries. Since the world food price crisis in 2007-2008, developing country governments, international donor agencies, and development practitioners have placed additional emphasis on making agricultural value chains work better for the poor. As value chains evolve to serve new markets, they tend to become less inclusive. For example, if a market for high quality rice arises within an economy, it is inherently easier for traders who sell rice to retailers to source that high quality rice from larger farms that are better able to control its quality than from dozens of smallholder farms. As a result, the normal path of value chain evolution can be biased against smallholders; hence, it is important to understand what types of interventions can make value chains more inclusive while also making them more efficient. In this brief, we summarize studies on five types of value chain interventions that were supported by the CGIAR’s Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) through its Flagship 3 on Inclusive and Effective Value Chains. Figure 1 illustrates a “typical” agricultural value chain, including the five intervention types (in orange). These include interventions that attempt to deal with multiple production constraints; certification; contract farming; public-private partnerships; and “other” services related to trading and marketing agricultural products. Apart from the last category, these interventions all involve production. This reflects the fact that smallholder producers can be considered, in some ways, the weakest link in evolving agricultural value chains (de Brauw and Bulte 2021). Hence, it is sensible to target interventions either at or close to smallholders. However, in some cases, the best way to overcome smallholder constraints may be to help actors at other points in the value chain overcome constraints. Many interventions share a focus on reducing transaction costs to promote smallholder market integration. Ideally, interventions increase both efficiency and inclusion, but we observe that such win-win outcomes are rare. Trade-offs appear to be more common than synergies, and some value chain interventions involve clear winners and losers.

Download or read book Making Markets More Inclusive written by K. McKague and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most studies of doing business at the "bottom of the economic pyramid" focus on viewing the poor as consumers, as micro-entrepreneurs, or as potential employees of local companies. Almost no analysis focuses on the poor as primary producers of agricultural commodities a striking omission given that primary producers are by far the largest segment of the working-age population in developing economies. Making Markets More Inclusive bridges the management literature with original research on agricultural value chains in developing and emerging economies. This exciting work is the first to delve into the skills, capabilities, strategies and approaches needed for inclusive value chain development. McKague shows how NGOs and companies can connect poor producers in developing economies with the right markets to better create social and economic impact. He also analyzes one of the leading agricultural value chain initiatives in the world, which is being replicated by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in several different value chains in Malawi, Tanzania, Ghana, India, and Mali. Want more? Check out these compelling videos, which provide a glimpse into the stories and examples used throughout the book. Video Trailer for Making Markets More Inclusive. Farmer Training. Kallani Rani increased the productivity of her cows, become a cattle feed seller in her village (Chapter 6), and opened a fresh milk canteen in her local market (Chapter 7). She now trains other women farmers and works to improve opportunities for women in her community (Chapter 5). Animal Health Care Services. Asma Husna trained to be an animal health worker with CARE to provide important animal health services and education to local farmers on a fee-for-service basis (Chapter 6). Cattle Feed Shops. Fulera Akter started a business as a cattle feed seller after demand for nutritional animal feed grew due to farmers' improved knowledge of nutrition (Chapter 6). Savings Groups. Coauthor Muhammad Siddiquee, the Coordinator of Agriculture and Value Chain Programs at CARE Bangladesh, discusses the value of farmer savings groups (Chapter 6). Milk Collection. Sarothi Rani became a milk collector to earn an improved income for her family and provide an important service to other dairy farmers in her community (Chapter 7). Digital Fat Testing. Introducing digital fat testing machines into the dairy value chain helped reward farmers for making investments in producing higher quality milk, as well as ensuring transparent and timely payments (Chapter 7). Microfranchising. Supporting agricultural input shop owners with training, relationships to suppliers, common branding, and standardized customer services improves the productivity of smallholder farmers and the profitability of shops (Chapter 12). Bangladesh Dairy Value Chain Learning. Reflections from some of the 40 CARE staff from 17 countries who came to Bangladesh to learn from the experience of the dairy value chain project (Chapter 15).

Download or read book Smallholder dairy value chain development The case of Ada a woreda Oromia Region Ethiopia written by and published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD). This book was released on with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Innovation for inclusive value chain development written by Devaux, André and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Formal versus informal written by Birthal, Pratap S. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2016-03-04 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite a growing dairy industry in India, farmers’ lack of access to organized markets and institutional credit remains one of the major hindrances in improving the scale and productivity of dairying. Using data from a survey of 612 households from the state of Punjab, India, this paper evaluates farmers’ choices of dairy value chains and their financing mechanisms. The study finds that 62 percent of the sample farmers representing 69 percent of the total milk sales are connected with formal value chains driven by cooperatives, multinational companies and private domestic processors. Small dairy farmers are associated more with informal value chains but they are not excluded from the formal value chains. The performance of different value chains in terms of productivity and profitability of dairying is almost on par. Also, there is hardly any difference in the milk price offered by formal and informal buyers pointing towards milk market being competitive. More than half of the farmers borrow credit both from within and outside the chain for dairying related activities. Chain-based financing is restricted to only one-fourth of the borrowers and mostly to those associated with informal value chains. Financing by commercial banks and other financial institutions is limited to only 9 percent of the borrowers, mainly larger farmers. The socially-disadvantaged and smallholder farmers are often neglected in institutional lending because of their lack of physical assets to use as collateral against loans. Value chain approach, due to its product market orientation, can serve as an entry point for financial institutions to improve their outreach to smallholders. The innovative financial products, such as ‘dairy credit card’ and ‘contract as collateral’ would enable them to adopt yield-enhancing technology and inputs and also to scale up their dairy activity.

Download or read book Enhancing dairy based livelihoods in India and the United Republic of Tanzania through feed innovation and value chain development approaches Final project report written by Duncan, A.J. and published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD). This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ??? ??????

Download or read book Addressing Variation in Smallholder Farming Systems to Improve Dairy Development in Kenya written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Current Issues and Challenges in the Dairy Industry written by Salam Ibrahim and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dairy industry has faced several challenges that have impacted dairy food quality and consumer acceptability. This book presents a different approach to address current issues and challenges facing the dairy industry. The book consists of seven chapters dealing with dairy processing, current issues related to consumers, and probiotic characteristics. We hope that this first edition can build interest among other scientists to join our future effort to write a more comprehensive book on this topic.

Download or read book Domestic versus export led agricultural transformation Evidence from Uganda s dairy value chain written by Bjorn, Van Campenhout and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driven by increased demand from both local and export markets and facilitated by far-reaching liberalization and privatization policies, the dairy sub-sector in Uganda has undergone significant changes in the last decade. With a comparative advantage in milk production, the southwest of Uganda has started to attract considerable Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in processing capacity, mainly targeting the export market. As a result, processing capacity increased five-fold and dairy became Uganda’s third most important export product, coming from negligible amounts a decade earlier. In this study, we use observational data collected at different nodes within the value chain to compare the structure of the chain and the roles and economic activities of different actors between export-led value chains and value chains that cater for the local market. Doing so allows us to identify the technological and institutional innovations that both result from the emergence of export-led dairy value chains and at the same time drive further upgrading. Our analysis underscores the importance of milk collection centers, which often take the form of farmer cooperatives, in providing many of the support services that enable other actors in the value chain to produce sufficient milk, and maintain milk sanitation levels necessary for an export sector to emerge.

Download or read book Milk Production and Marketing Channel Decisions of Smallholder Farmers in the Zambian Milk Value Chain written by Tulumbe Cheelo and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dairy farming is a source of livelihood and a major income source for many of the rural Zambian farmers. The importance of the dairy sector cannot be overemphasised as its development has capacity to increase job creation and wealth generation. The sector makes insurmountable contributions to the nutrition status of the country and to the financial gains to the various value chain stakeholders. In an attempt to further develop these financial gains, several initiatives have been developed to encourage smallholder farmers' participation in the sector, and more so, for women and the youth. Nonetheless, there is still low participation by these interest groups. This study aims to understand the factors that influence smallholder farmers' decisions to participate in the Zambian dairy value chain, and particularly in terms of milk production and the selection of different marketing channels. The objectives of the study are therefore to: (i) determine the factors that influence smallholder farmers' decisions to participate in milk production and the factors that influence milk volumes or milk production in Zambia, (ii) identify the factors influencing the choice of milk marketing channels among smallholder farmers in the Zambian milk value chain, and (iii) examine the characteristics of the youth and women in the milk production, as they compare with the characteristics of the control groups (non-youths and men). To address the study objectives, quantitative cross-section secondary household data collected in 2015 by the Indaba for Agricultural Policy Research Institute (IAPRI) in the Rural Agricultural Livelihoods Survey (RALS) was used. "The RALS was implemented to provide policy-relevant information that is not practical to collect annually from the government's agricultural surveys"℗+ (IAPRI, 2016). The study used data from the RALS from five key milk producing provinces of Zambia, namely the Central, Southern, Eastern, Lusaka and Western provinces. These constituted a total sample of 3574 randomly selected farming households. The study made use of both descriptive statistics and econometric modelling to analyse the data and present the findings. Specifically, the Heckman selection model (HSM), multinomial logit models, and an independent t-test were utilised. The HSM was run on 2477 valid observations to address the first objective: to determine the factors that influence smallholder farmers' decisions to participate in milk production and the factors that influence milk production in Zambia. The HSM is used in order to account for potential biases in the sample selection of milk producers. The model results show that demographic factors, age, gender and education level of the household head, and the household size, affect the participation of farmers in milk production. Other variables were found to influence participation in milk production, such as landholding size, off-farm income, value of productive assets, access to market information, access to extension services, distance to markets and veterinary centres, mobile phone access, and geographical location. Similarly, herd size, education level and access to extension services, grazing system used, and geographical location were found to be significant predictors of milk production. Results show that these factors have a positive impact on the amount of milk produced by farmers, except for landholding which has a negative influence on milk production. To investigate the factors that influence the choice of a marketing channel among smallholder farmers, a multinomial logit model is used. Three milk marketing channels were identified, namely direct milk sales, and traditional and modern marketing channels. The valid sample for this model comprised 172 households, being households that both produced milk and participated in milk marketing. According to the multinomial logit model results, choice to participate in the traditional market is positively influenced by gender of the household head and milk yield. Off-farm income and distance to the nearest established market, however, have a negative influence on the selection of the traditional market. Gender of household head has a negative impact on participation in the modern marketing channel, yet education level, distance to major markets and amount of milk yield have a positive influence on choosing a modern marketing channel. Finally, independent t-tests are used to test whether or not there were statistically significant differences between the characteristics of the women and the youth, against those of other participants in milk production. The sample of milk-producing households comprised 742 households. The study concluded that there are statistically significant differences between the attributes of women and youth farmers, relative to the reference groups (male and non-youth farmers) in the study. This implies that men and/or older farmers have an overarching advantage and capacity to produce milk over women and youth groups. The study makes a significant contribution to the knowledge base of the Zambian dairy sector. The sector has limited literature to aid in informing policy. Based on the findings, there is a need for government intervention in the form of policy changes and value chain investments to improve milk production and participation in the modern marketing channel or more formal milk marketing channels. To encourage women and youth participation in the dairy sector, there is a need to increase accessibility to market information, support services and transparency in the dairy chain. There is a great need for affirmative action to be implemented towards achieving gender appreciation and empowerment to encourage involvement of women in milk production. For continuity and future development of the sector to materialise, there is need for widespread youth empowerment in areas of milk production

Download or read book PIM achievements in innovations related to inclusive and efficient agricultural value chains written by de Brauw, Alan and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Efforts to promote the development and agricultural value chains area common element of strategies to stimulate economic growth in low-income countries. Since the world food price crisis in 2007-2008, developing country governments, international donor agencies, and development practitioners have placed additional focus on trying to make agricultural value chains work better for the poor. As value chains evolve to serve new markets, they tend to become less inclusive. For example, if a value chain for high quality rice arises within an economy, it is inherently easier for those who sell rice to retailers to source that high quality rice from larger farms with the ability to control quality than from dozens of smallholder farms. As a result, the normal path of value chain evolution can be biased against smallholders; hence it is important to understand what types of interventions can make value chains more inclusive while also making them more efficient.

Download or read book Eastern African dairy value chains what prospects for women in trade written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org. [Author] [Author]. This book was released on 2024-05-27 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Eastern Africa, dairy value chains are an important source of income and employment for millions of smallholders, particularly for women who provide an essential contribution to the growth of the dairy sector. [Author] While the sector is rapidly growing, and expanding trade in dairy products holds immense potential for boosting inclusive economic growth in Eastern Africa, dairy trade mostly remains a small-scale domestic business in the region. [Author] In particular, women’s engagement in dairy markets and trade is constrained by gender-based barriers and inequalities, and dairy intensification and commercialization processes have led to uneven outcomes for women and men. [Author] As many countries are increasingly investing in the modernization of their dairy farming systems to spur dairy productivity and commercialization, it is essential that the gender implications of the market-driven development of the dairy sector are taken into consideration. [Author] This report reviews gender issues in the Eastern Africa dairy value chains, with a focus on markets and trade, in the context of broader regional policy frameworks and evolving market scenarios. [Author] In particular, gender policy developments in agricultural and trade policies relevant for the dairy sector are assessed for Ethiopia, Kenya and Rwanda. [Author] By bridging the value chain level into the enabling policy dimension, this study attempts to contribute to ongoing debates on the prospects for women’s participation in dairy markets and trade through more gender-responsive policymaking. [Author]

Download or read book Developing Sustainable Food Value Chains written by David Neven and published by Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). This book was released on 2014 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using sustainable food value chain development (SFVCD) approaches to reduce poverty presents both great opportunities and daunting challenges. SFVCD requires a systems approach to identifying root problems, innovative thinking to find effective solutions and broad-based partnerships to implement programmes that have an impact at scale. In practice, however, a misunderstanding of its fundamental nature can easily result in value-chain projects having limited or non-sustainable impact. Furthermore, development practitioners around the world are learning valuable lessons from both failures and successes, but many of these are not well disseminated. This new set of handbooks aims to address these gaps by providing practical guidance on SFVCD to a target audience of policy-makers, project designers and field practitioners. This first handbook provides a solid conceptual foundation on which to build the subsequent handbooks. It (1) clearly defines the concept of a sustainable food value chain; (2) presents and discusses a development paradigm that integrates the multidimensional concepts of sustainability and value added; (3) presents, discusses and illustrates ten principles that underlie SFVCD; and (4) discusses the potential and limitations of using the value-chain concept in food-systems development. By doing so, the handbook makes a strong case for placing SFVCD at the heart of any strategy aimed at reducing poverty and hunger in the long run.

Download or read book Integrating the Dairy Business Hub Model in a Value Chain Development of Small Holder Dairy Farmers written by C. Omolo and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: