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Innovations for Agricultural Value Chains in Africa

Applying Science and Technology to Enhance Cassava, Dairy, and Maize Value Chains: Value Chain Examples Cassava Value Chain Meridian Institute has...

Impact of RFID on the Retail Value Chain: An Exploratory Study Using a Mixed Method Approach

While several large retailers have mandated RFID deployment across their value chains, the case for RFID adoption in retail still remains uncertain. This...

Expanding the agribusiness food chain

Source: infoDev In an op-ed for the current issue of Financial Times supplement This Is Africa, infoDev Program Coordinator Ellen Olafsen breaks down...

Enabling environments for effective value chain development

infoDev Program Coordinator Ellen Olafsen and other stakeholders took on the web of obstacles to agribusiness innovators at the plenary session panel of the “Making the Connection: Value Chains for Transforming Smallholder Agriculture” conference in Addis Ababa on November 8. Go to Source Similar Products: Powered by Agricultural Value Chain Finance:...

Is Africa ready to climb the value chain in agriculture?

Ellen Olafsen Five hundred million. That’s the official estimate, the number that practitioners arrive at from a range of 200 to 900 million. That is the number of smallholder farmers in the world, and it makes a lot of eyes pop in development circles. Take for example the most recent agribusiness value-chain event, Making the Connection: value chains for transforming...

Agribusiness and Innovation Systems in Africa

Introduction In May 2008, the World Bank Institute (WBI), in collaboration with the Danish Government, Global Development Network, Economic and Social Research Foundation in Tanzania, and other World Bank units, organized a conference in Tanzania. The conference was designed to facilitate learning and discuss concrete achievements on key policies, practices, and actors...