Related Blogs: Value Chains
Fair Trade but not fair price for coffee farmers in Ethiopia
Consumers pay more for Fair Trade and Organic certified coffee. But only a fraction of that premium reaches coffee farmers in Ethiopia.
Ethiopia’s coffee farmers struggle to realize benefits from international markets
Smallholder farmers in the cradle of the global coffee industry face technical and market obstacles—and climate change.
Quality control in agricultural value chains and external certification
Imagine a world in which every box of Cheerios you opened tasted different. In developed countries, quality control measures to ensure that food products meet certain safety and quality standards play a key role in agricultural processing.
Starting small
How can we find cost-effective, holistic, people-centered solutions to improve food security in Africa south of the Sahara?
Ghana’s groundnuts
Fungus-contaminated maize and groundnuts have been identified as the culprit for more than 40 percent of the disease burden in developing countries.
New online resource highlights tools for value chain analysis
Ensuring that small-scale farmers and producers enjoy a bigger piece of the financial pie is the aim of a new web resource on agricultural development.
Unlocking the value chain: First DuPont Roundtable on Agriculture and Development hosted at IFPRI
You can buy a bottle of Coca-Cola just about anywhere in the world, at an affordable price. If it can happen with Coke, why not with nutritious food?
Name-Brand Products: Boon or Bust for Farmers and Consumers?
Should I buy packaged goods, or bulk? Generic or name brand?
Modernization of Staple Food Value Chains Ensuring a Food-Secure Asia
sia is home to more than two-thirds of the world's poor and hungry. And as populations around the world continue to grow, the region's most vulnerable people will be faced with even greater challenges in the coming decades.